Talk:Mirabal sisters
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Some editing changes made, after visiting the museum and talking with the remaining sister, Dede this morning. The girls did not do what they did for monetary reasons, they were fighting for freedom. Their father was focused on business, and he did not want the girls so involved in the political activities they were undertaking because he feared exactly what happened - they might be killed.
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[edit] Birth/death dates
According to In the Time of the Butterflies (ISBN 0-452-27442-7), within the introduction, the birth and death dates of the 3 sisters are as follows:
- Patria Mercedes Mirabal
- Feb 27, 1924 - Nov 25, 1960
- Minerva Mirabal
- Mar 12, 1926 - Nov 25, 1960
- María Teresa Mirabal
- Oct 15, 1935 - Nov 25, 1960
I also notice that the youngest sister does not have any "Antonia" in her name.
(Also, the author's name is consistantly spelled Julia Alvarez, without an accent, in the same book.)
Can anyone else verify this? --Astronouth7303 01:22, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sources
Can someone with access to the book mentioned above, or other reputable info on the sisters, add some sources to this? Millichip (talk) 21:48, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't the word in the first paragraph be "resides" (or perhaps even "presides") instead of "precedes", in this sentence:
"She precedes in the sister's natal house and works to preserve her sister's memory through the "Museo Hermanas Mirabal" which is also located in Salcedo and was home to the girls for the final ten months of their lives)."
And that last bracket needs removing.
Rosa Lichtenstein 13:27, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
To say that Trujillo was romantically interested in Minerva is too generous to him. There were some Dominican women even coming from middle and upper class backgrounds who were willing to trade Trujillo sexual for economic and political favors. The Mirabals were not among them. At the time of the assasination Trujillo is rumored to have told some of his circle he could bring one or two Mirabals around to free their husbands from jail. Instead Trujillo was scolded in front of them.
It has been suggested by various political authors that Trujillo was assasinated by Dominicans at the request of the CIA. In fact the Dominicans merely asked if the US would support a new government even if the leaders were among those implicated. The Mirabal assasination and his other atrocities caused sufficient desire on the part of certain Dominicans they wanted to do it themselves. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.240.206.205 (talk) 22:06, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
