Maria Teresa Mirabal
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One of three Dominican Mirabal sisters assassinated in November of 1960 for opposing the regime of dictator Rafael Trujillo. A fourth sister, Dede, escaped death on that fateful day and later opened a museum in her sisters' honor.
Before Fame
She and her three sisters formed an anti-Trujillo organization called the Movement of the Fourteenth of June. They adopted the underground code name of Las Mariposas (The Butterflies).
Trivia
In the years leading up to their murder, she and her sister Minerva were imprisoned and subjected to torture on several occasions.
Family Life
Her husband, along with the husbands of her sisters Minerva and Patria, was imprisoned for his political activism. On the way to visit their spouses in prison, the three sisters were intercepted by a government-ordered assassin.
Associated With
Roque Dalton was another Latin American revolutionary who was murdered for his activism.
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