The Mirabal Legacy: History of a Political Crime

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Before being a date in institutional calendars, November 25 was a day of continental mourning. On the same day of 1960, in the Dominican Republic, the sisters Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal were murdered by agents of the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Their crime was to challenge the regime. Their struggle, a combination of political resistance and feminist consciousness, became a symbol for all Latin America. Las Mirabal were know…