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Patria was the eldest of the four Mirabal sisters, she born on February 27, 1924.
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Bélgica Adela "Dedé" Mirabal Reyes she born 1 de marzo de 1925
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María Argentina Minerva Mirabal Reyes de Tavárez was born March 12, 1926
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They studied at the Immaculate College Concepción de la Vega, a school of Spanish nuns of the terrificial order of Afronticals of the Jesus and Maria where, both Minerva and María Teresa, were advanced by their intelligence and interest in the study.
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Antonia María Teresa Mirabal Reyes de Guzmán was born October 15, 1935
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The Mirabal sisters grew up in a rural home in the Ojo de Agua section of the Salcedo municipality. The father of the sisters, Enrique Mirabal, was a businessman
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At the age of 15 years, Minerva insists on continuing its studies. She starts questioning the policy of your country, which was led by the dictator Rafael Trujillo
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She decides to study law, there he meets a boy called Pericles Franco (future founder of the popular socialist party)
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The four sisters are invited to a dance in the palace of the dictator. There the dictator becomes infatuated with Minerva and does not stop stalking her.
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Tired Minerva, rejects the dictator putting it in evidence. Some days later her father, her friends and she were arrested for their relations with the popular socialist party
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The three sisters marry three anti-Trujillo men and have children.
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Minerva becomes the first female doctor of law in the country
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Manolo, Minerva's husband makes an uprising on June 14, but he fails. That's why his new clandestine group receives the name of June 14.
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The three mirabal sisters adopt the code name of the butterflies.
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Te members of fourteen of June are arrested. In jail, the sisters are tortured and raped repeatedly.
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When the sisters went to jail to visit their husbands, a car cuts them off and they kill them and then throw their bodies and their car into an alley.
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Everyone knew that Trujillo was the one behind the murder. On May 30, his car also suffered an "accident" and died.
