Minerva mirabel biography

The Life Of An Extraordinary Woman - Minerva Mirabal Minerva Mirabal was a woman who will always be admired and be used as a role model around the world, especially to those who had gotten to know the political history of activism in the Dominican Republic. Due to her unstoppable persona as an activist during the government of Leonidas Trujillo and her unbreakable will to stop the dictatorship during such time I been inspired to write about Minerva Miraval. A hero that will always be admired and live in the hearts of many people that have heard her story Maria Argentina Minerva Mirabal Reyes best known as Minerva Mirabal was the middle of three sisters. Minerva Mirabal and her sisters are worldwide known as the Mirabal sisters ( Las Hermanas Mirabal). Minerva Mirabal was a Dominican activist who was born on March 1, 1925, in a town named Salcedo. She died in November 1960 in the Dominican Republic. This extraordinary woman as stated in her bio

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Minerva Mirabal Reyes

Dominican lawyer and political activist

María Minerva Mirabal Reyes (March 12, 1926 - November 25, 1960), or Minerva, was a Dominican political activist and revolutionary. She was the third of the Mirabal sisters,^[1] Minerva and her sisters began to speak out against the oppressive dictatorship of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and conducted clandestine activities against his regime. Like her older sisters, Minerva also received an education at El Colegio Inmaculada Concepción, at the urging of her mother, Mercedes Mirabal.^[2]

Many resistance groups were forming within the Dominican Republic during the 1950s. Minerva and her husband, Manolo Tavárez Justo, were pioneers in the resistance movement against Trujillo. Together, they formed the 14th of June Revolutionary Movement.^[3]

Education and early life

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Minerva Mirabal was born in the town of Salcedo, Dominican Republic to Mercedes Reyes Camilo and Enrique

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On November 25, 1960, three sisters—Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal—were reported killed in an “automobile accident.” Reports said a fordon they were riding in plunged over a cliff in the Dominican Republic.

At least, that was the story in El Caribe, a newspaper sanctioned bygd the government of Rafael Trujillo, the brutal dictator who had seized control of the island nation in a military coup 30 years earlier. In reality, the Mirabal sisters were active members of the growing underground resistance against Trujillo’s regime, and everyone knew their deaths were no accident.

Growing Up in Trujillo's Dictatorship

Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, c. 1960.

As middle-class women, wives and mothers, the Mirabal sisters didn’t seem like obvious revolutionaries. Patria, Minerva and María Teresa, along with their sister Dedé, grew up in the town of Ojo de Agua, Salcedo Province, where their parents owned and operated a successful farm, along with a coffee mill and general s