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The Mirabal sisters

Las Hermanas Mirabal were revolutionary women in the Dominican Republic.

Usually known as Patria (1924-1960), Minerva (1925-1960), and María Teresa (1926-1960), the Mirabal sisters spoke out again the dictator Rafael Trujillo, nicknamed El Jefe. A fourth sister, Dedé (1925-2014) worked to tell their story.

In 1949, Minerva first met Trujillo, where she turn downed his sexual advances and was subsequently jailed and, for fear of her safety, prevented from attending law school for six years. She did eventually attend the University of Santo Domingo, where she graduated summa cum laude as the first woman to graduate from law school in the Dominican Republic.

This helped her and her sisters' interest in politics--and their hatred of the dictator (started years before, when Trujillo murdered their friend for political opposition). It was Minerva who first became involved against Trujillo, but first María Teresa and then Patria joined after witnessing the atrocities of the regime.

Their group, the 14th of June Movement, educated citizens about Trujillo's crimes and gathered weapons. They were discovered, and Minerva and María Teresa were jailed, as were the husbands of all three women.

On November 25th, 1960, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa were stopped by Trujillo's agents, where they were strangled and then clubbed to death. Multiple sources have since confessed this assassination was by direct order of Trujillo himself.

After this, Dedé Mirabal devoted the rest of her life to tell the story of her sisters and raising the children they had left behind. They have been recognized internationally as a symbol of social justice and feminism, and bravely standing against oppressive regimes. November 25th is now the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in remembrance of their assassination.

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