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The Mirabal sisters (Spanish: hermanas Mirabal [eɾˈmanas miɾaˈβal]) were three sisters from the Dominican Republic, three of whom (Patria, Minerva and María Teresa) opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (el Jefe) and were involved in activities against his regime. [1] The three sisters were assassinated on 25 November 1960.
María Teresa was the youngest of four sisters born into a wealthy family in the Dominican province of Salcedo (now, after a name change, it is called Hermanas Mirabal, or in English, Mirabal Sisters). Her parents were Enrique Mirabal Fernández and Mercedes Reyes Camilo. [1] Like her sisters before her, she attended Colegio Inmaculada ...
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.
The Mirabal Sisters Patria, Minerva, María Teresa, were three Dominican sisters who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were actively against his regime.
Located at St. John's Methodist Church, "¡Time for Affirmative Consent!" combines the story of the Mirabal Sisters, in whose name the day honors, with performance and a silent auction. The ...
Salcedo is the capital city of the Hermanas Mirabal Province in the Dominican Republic. It is the birthplace of the Dominican heroines, the Mirabal sisters, who died in the struggle against the dictator Rafael Trujillo. A museum in the town commemorates three of sisters; it was tended to by the remaining sister, Bélgica (Dedé) Mirabal, until ...
The Mirabal sisters’ efforts to challenge the regime cost them their lives, but it also sparked a revolution and made them symbols of both democratic and feminist resistance, as Time reported.
The story is a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters, Dominican revolutionary activists, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25, 1960. In the film, Salma Hayek played one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays Trujillo.