Thursday is the UN-designated International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It is a noble cause with a somewhat clunky title, but behind it lies a truly remarkable story. On 25 ...
Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal—three sisters from a middle class family, all married with children—may not have seemed the most likely revolutionaries. But living under the Dominican ...
Seventy five years ago, thousands of Haitians were murdered in the Dominican Republic by a brutal dictator. It was one of the 20th Century's least-remembered acts of genocide. As many as 20,000 people ...
Rafael Trujillo was an archetypal dictator, a military man who seized control of the Dominican Republic in 1930 and remained in power—bullying his people and amassing a huge fortune in the ...
On July 6, 1938, at Evian-les-Bains, a lovely French tourist resort on Lake Geneva, representatives of 32 countries met for a conference to discuss the growing Jewish refugee problem in Europe ...
As we commemorate Memorial Day this weekend in the U.S., the Dominican Republic’s people mark 60 years since the fall of Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship on May 30, 1961. Considered Latin-America’s ...
Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal were sisters from the Dominican Republic who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo; they were assassinated on November 25, 1960, under orders from ...
The three Mirabal sisters were leading figures in the Dominican Republic's opposition movement against the dictator, General Rafael Trujillo. Patria, Maria Teresa and the most prominent of the three, ...
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