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Worldwide, women demand an end to gender-based violence on Orange Day. However, hardly anyone knows what three sisters from the Dominican Republic have to do with it.
“If they kill me, I will raise my arms from the grave and be stronger.” BBC Mundo. With this phrase, Dominican activist Minerva Mirabal responded in the early 1960s to those who warned her of what then seemed an open secret: the regime of President Rafael (El Chivo) Leónidas Trujillo (1930-1961) was going to kill her. On November 25, 1960, her mutilated body was found at the bottom of a ravine, inside a jeep along with two of her sisters, Patria…
The Mirabal Sisters And The Courage That Helped End a Dictatorship
The Mirabal sisters stood up to Trujillo when doing so meant prison or death. Their assassination on 25 Nov 1960 shook the Dominican Republic and helped hasten the dictator’s fall. Dedé Mirabal spent her life making sure the world remembered why.
On November 25, 1960, the bodies of the three Mirabal sisters: Patria, Minerva and María Teresa, were found at the bottom of a cliff on the coast of the Dominican Republic. That event, which was sold to the press as a tragic accident by Trujillo, the Dominican dictator who gave the order to put an end to them, contributed to raising awareness among the population, culminating, six months later, with the murder of the warlord.
November 25th is now a global day to denounce the violence suffered by women and girls worldwide. Its origin, however, lies not in a law or an institutional campaign, but in a political assassination that shocked an entire nation: that of the Mirabal sisters. Minerva, Patria, and María Teresa, known as Las Mariposas (The Butterflies), were brutally executed in 1960 on the orders of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republi…
November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a date officialized by the UN in the 1990s but which, in Latin America, goes back years to remember the murder, on November 25, 1960, of the Dominican sisters María Teresa, Patria and Minerva, who thus became a symbol of resistance against machista violence. The United Nations General Assembly adopted in 1993 the Resolution to fight against any act of violence based on…
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