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The lovely Mirabel Madrigal

Her skirt took so long lol

Who should I draw next?

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Doodle of the baby gorl

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Si me matan, sacaré los brazos de la tumba y seré más fuerte

Minerva Mirabal

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Chiamate ''le farfalle'', prima che la cieca violenza del regime interrompesse il loro volo verso la libertà, le sorelle Mirabal ebbero il

25 novembre 1960: le sorelle Mirabal

Chiamate ''le farfalle'', prima che la cieca violenza del regime interrompesse il loro volo verso la libertà, le sorelle Mirabal ebbero il coraggio di lottare per la libertà politica del loro paese, la Repubblica Dominicana, opponendosi ad una delle tirannie più spietate dell'America Latina, quella del dittatore Rafael Leònidas Trujillo, giunto al potere nel 1930 attraverso elezioni truccate.

Già negli anni della loro gioventù Mercedes, Maria e Antonia si scontrarono contro un ambiente politico e sociale tirannico e brutale, che subito risvegliò le loro coscienze sulla necessità di libertà e rispetto dei diritti delle donne dominicane. Quando Trujillo salì al potere con l'aiuto degli Stati Uniti, la loro famiglia (come altre nel paese) perse quasi totalmente i suoi beni, prima nazionalizzati, poi incamerati direttamente dal dittatore nei suoi beni privati.

L'impegno delle giovani sorelle prese il via nel 1960, dopo essersi sposate e aver finito gli studi, con la fondazione del Movimento 14 di Giugno, sotto la direzione di Manolo Travares Justo, dove prima Minerva e poi anche Maria Teresa usarono come nome in codice ''Mariposas'' (''farfalle'').

L'organizzazione trovò ben presto favori in tutte le zone del paese, che si organizzarono in nuclei ben strutturati; il movimento venne però scoperto del gennaio del 1960 dalla polizia segreta di Trujillo, il SIM (Servicio de Inteligencia Militar), e suoi membri vennero perseguitati e incarcerati, tra cui le sorelle Mirabal e i loro mariti; molti altri furono trasferiti nel carcere della città di ''La 40'', carcere di tortura e morte.

Alcuni mesi dopo Mercedes, Maria e Antonia vennero liberate ma i loro coniugi restarono reclusi e vennero trasferiti nel carcere di Puerto Plata.

Il 25 novembre Minerva e María Teresa andarono a visitare i loro mariti alla prigione, in compagnia della sorella Patria e dell'autista Rufino de la Cruz. Intercettate sulla strada del ritorno dagli agenti del SIM, furono condotte in un canneto e subironoo crudeli torture prima di essere vittime di quello che si è considerato il crimine più orripilante della storia dominicana.

Coperte di sangue, sfregiate dalle coltellate, furono strangolate, messe nel veicolo nel quale viaggiavano e gettate in un precipizio con lo scopo di simulare un incidente.

L'assassinio delle sorelle Mirabal produsse gran dolore in tutto il paese e fortificò lo spirito patriottico della comunità, desiderosa di raggiungere un governo democratico che garantisse il rispetto della dignità umana.

Il 17 dicembre 1999 l'Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite scelse la data del 25 novembre come ''Giornata internazionale contro la violenza maschile sulle donne'', in omaggio alle sorelle Mirabal.

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Forgotten Women Friday #23

The Mirabal Sisters- Active in the 1950s- Dominican Republic

“Butterflies of the Revolution”

The Mirabal Sisters are proof that anyone, even a group of three sisters, can ignite a revolutionary spark and topple governments. The Mirabal sisters-- Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and Dede, were born into a well-to-do family in the Dominican Republic in in the 1920s and 30s. At this time, the Dominican was ruled by ruthless dictator, Rafael Trujillo, and it was a totalitarian nation where every citizen lived in fear. Like most dictators, Trujillo had a secret police, controlled all aspects of the media, and managed to “disappear” his enemies. In addition, Trujillo had “beauty scouts” that would search the country for women and girls for Trujillo to date and/or rape. The Mirabal sisters were found by one of these scouts and invited to one of Trujillo’s parties, where it quickly became obvious that Minerva was the object of his desire.

Minerva wasn’t about to go quietly. Instead, she slapped Trujillo across the face and ran out of the party with her family. However, Trujillo sought revenge and barred her from attending her law school classes and after she found a way to graduate from law school, Trujillo’s government revoked her law license. Trujillo even imprisoned the father of the Mirabal sisters, who later died from the brutal treatment he received in prison. Later, when Minerva and her mother traveled to Santo Domingo, Trujillo had them kept as prisoners in their hotel, only to be released if Minerva had sex with him. Minerva refused Trujillo’s advances again, and she and her mother managed to escape. After facing such intense persecution and pain at the hands of Trujillo, Patria, Maria Teresa, and their husbands joined Minerva in rebellion. They began to distribute pamphlets, gather weapons, and build bombs at their kitchen table, all while going by the code name Las Mariposas (the butterflies). As Patria put it, “We cannot allow our children to grow up in this corrupt and tyrannical regime. We have to fight against it, and I am willing to give up everything, even my life if necessary." When the group’s plan to assassinate Trujillo in 1960 failed, they were all imprisoned but later released due to international pressure.

Refusing to give up, Trujillo put a hit on all of their heads. To set them up, Trujillo imprisoned their husbands in a jail that could only be reached by a narrow mountain pass. When secret police ambushed their jeep on the way to the jail, Patria managed to get word to a nearby truck driver that Trujillo’s men were about to kill them. Sure enough, Trujillo’s men killed the three Mirabal sisters by strangling and beating them. In a clumsy attempt to cover up the murder, the men put the bodies of the sisters in the truck and then pushed the vehicle over a cliff. However, they did not die in vain-- Their deaths lit the spark of revolution in the Dominican and six months later Trujillo was dead at the hands of the military. As one historian put it, “the cowardly killing of three beautiful women in such a manner had greater effect on Dominicans than most of Trujillo’s other crimes… It did something to their machismo. They could never forgive Trujillo this crime.” Today, their legacy lives on: their image can be found on Dominican paper money, the book In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez is loosely based on their lives, and the United Nations designated November 25th as International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in their honor.

We‘re reading In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez in my English class and honestly it astounds me how I’ve never heard of the Mirabal Sisters before when they’ve done so much. And as per usual, as soon as I admire someone or something, I have to draw them.