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María Minerva Mirabal Reyes (March 12, 1926 - November 25, 1960), or Minerva, was a Dominican political activist and revolutionary. She was the third of the Mirabal sisters, [1] Minerva and her sisters began to speak out against the oppressive dictatorship of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and conducted clandestine activities against his regime.
According to the historian Bernard Diederich, Minerva Mirabal was arrested twice; she was first jailed in January 1960, at the start of the wave of repression of 1J4 members where "hundreds of 1J4 members are rounded up and tortured" [15] She once said "It is a source of happiness to do whatever can be done for our country that suffers so many ...
Antonia María Teresa Mirabal Reyes de Guzmán (October 15, 1935 – November 25, 1960) was a surveyor and political activist from the Dominican Republic. She was one of three sisters assassinated together at the direction of the country's dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo .
The Mirabal Sisters. Patria, Minerva, María Teresa, were three Dominican sisters who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were actively against his regime. Their sister, Dedé Mirabal ...
The actors’ new scripted podcast with iHeartMedia’s My Cultura Network “Sisters of the Underground,” tells the true story of the Mirabal sisters, Patria, Minerva and María Teresa ...
The Mirabal sisters are Dominican revolutionaries and the subject of the Sisters of the Underground, a new podcast produced by Eva Longoria. Here's what to know.
Minerva and her three sisters, Patria (Lumi Cavazos), Dedé (Pilar Padilla), and María Teresa "Maté" (Mía Maestro), live on a farm in rural Ojo De Agua. Minerva, the outspoken sister, convinces her father, Enrique Mirabal (Fernando Becerril), to send her, Patria, and Maté to a boarding school.
Fela: A worker for the Mirabal family who claims to be a fortune teller. After the girls die, she claims to be possessed by them. Minou goes to Fela for a time to "talk" to her mother after her death. Minou: One of Minerva's children, Minou was born around 1956. Like her mother, she is strong-willed and independent.