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How the Orange Days were inspired by Dominican feminists DW 11/24/2025

The Mirabal sisters were murdered in 1960 by forces tied to Trujillo's repressive regime, becoming emblematic victims of political repression and resistance.
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Orange Days: Who were the history-making Mirabal sisters? DW 11/24/2025

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.
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