"On November 25, 1960, three sisters Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal were found dead at the bottom of a ravine near La Cumbre, a mountainous stretch of road in the Dominican Republic. The jeep they were traveling in had plunged 150 meters into a mangled heap. It looked like an accident except their bodies, and that of their driver, bore signs of beating and strangulation."
"The rise of 'The Butterflies' Alongside her sisters and their husbands, Minerva helped form the "14th of June Movement" a clandestine network that distributed pamphlets, organized resistance cells and exposed the regime's crimes. The sisters' code name was "Las Mariposas," or "The Butterflies." Minerva and Maria Teresa were arrested and released several times for their resistance activities. On the day they died, the sisters were returning from visiting their imprisoned husbands."
On November 25, 1960, Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal were discovered dead after their jeep plunged into a ravine; their bodies and their driver's showed signs of beating and strangulation. The Dominican Republic was under Rafael Trujillo's authoritarian rule, marked by censorship, surveillance and brutal repression. Minerva, the first woman in the country to earn a law degree, had rejected Trujillo's sexual advances and faced harassment, denial of her license and constant surveillance. Alongside their husbands, the sisters helped form the clandestine 14th of June Movement, distributing pamphlets, organizing resistance cells and exposing regime crimes.
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