By: Felipe Argote
were the days of the dictatorship of José Leonidas Trujillo. The Dominican Republic had already suffered 30 years with this bloody dictator who did not complete primary school. Trujillo was in jail at the age of sixteen years for cattle rustling and check forgery, but he took a tremendous opportunity to serve the U.S. army that invaded the Dominican Republic in 1916 citing delays in the payment of debt.
His role earned him numerous promotions. When the occupying army finally left the island in 1924, left Trujillo and barricaded by weapons throughout his dictatorship.
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| Trujillo with President Richard Nixon |
was the November 25, 1960. The desolate road winding through the hills. Minerva 34-year old mother of a boy and a girl, Maria Teresa 25-year-old mother of a girl and country of 36 years and mother of two girls and a boy, riding in a car driven by Rufino de la Cruz. Returning from "The Fort", a prison where they were detained three husbands turned against the dictatorship of José Leonidas Trujillo. Minerva and Maria Teresa had also been sentenced to prison but in a supposed act of kindness had been released by the dictator.
As the car moved back down the road, bridge height Marapoca were intercepted by a car safety of the dictator and forced at gunpoint to put them all in the back of his own car while the driver was taken in another.
who coordinated the operation Ciriaco de la Rosa told what happened next:
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"After the imprisoned, the drove to the site chosen, where Rojas Lora I ordered him to take poles and carried one of the girls. Complied with the order on the spot and took one of them, the long braids (Maria Teresa). Valerio Alfonso chose the highest (Minerva), I chose the most short and chubby (Motherland) and Mallet, the driver, Rufino de la Cruz. I ordered each to be placed in a cane field beside the highway, separated all the victims to witness the execution of each one of them. "
" I ordered Perez Terrero to stay on the road to see if it approached a vehicle or someone I could hear the case. That is the truth of the matter. I do not want to cheat justice or the people. I tried to avert disaster, but could not, because otherwise we would have cleared them all. "
The Mirabal sisters were beaten to death, then placed against the driver back in the car and throw them away ravine to fake a car accident.
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Minerva was the one who first started as an activist in the democratic struggle as a student of law, integrating along with her husband who was later the father of her two children, Manuel Tavarez, a political grouping June 14 that he faced the Trujillo dictatorship. Manuel Tavarez was shot three years later, in 1963, after Trujillo's death, following up against a military coup that overthrew the elected president after the death of Trujillo Juan Bosh.
Maria Teresa joined the group later, following the footsteps of his sister Minerva. Homeland worked but was not militant group. In the three Mirabal sisters were known as butterflies.
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| Joaquin Balaguer |
The bloodthirsty dictator José Leonidas Trujillo was executed by an armed group in 1961, after which they were first democratic elections in the Dominican Republic. These elections were won by Juan Bosch, a writer and politician who was exiled for twenty years during the dictatorship of Trujillo. Was dethroned after seven months of its mandate for the military, provoking a popular uprising that came close to overthrowing the new military dictatorship. At that time, again the U.S. military invaded the country and puts Joaquin Balaguer, one of the allegations of the dictator Trujillo, president. Balaguer remained directing the destinies of the country by pursuing the murder and fraud for thirty-two years
of the Mirabal sisters only survived Bélgica Adela "Dede", who is currently in charge of the Mirabal Sisters Museum. One of Dede's sons, Jaime Fernandez Mirabal, served as vice president during the government of the Dominican Liberation Party. A daughter of Minerva, Minou Tavarez Mirabal, is currently deputy of the republic.
In August 2007 the name was changed to the Province of Salcedo in the Mirabal Sisters, martyrs for having the sisters born and raised in the town of Ojo de Agua, Salcedo previously named province, north of the Dominican Republic.
November 25 is commemorated annually worldwide on International Day of No Violence Against Women. The day also was established to commemorate the life of Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal.
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