In a modest ceremony at the family home in Ojo de Agua, Hermanas Mirabal province, President Luis Abinader dedicated the plaque honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of Minerva Mirabal on 12 March 2026, perhaps the most well-known of the three sisters who were murdered during the last year of the Trujillo dictatorship.
The assassination of Minerva Mirabal was the tipping point that led to the eventual assassination of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo on 30 May 1960.
The assassination is remembered around the world with the United Nations naming 25 November, date of the murder, as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Minerva, a well-known opponent of the tyrant, her two sisters and their driver, were brutally murdered on the highway to Puerto Plata.
President Abinader recalled the bravery of 34-year old Minerva, and the valiant position that the family took against the oppression of the era. Minister of Culture Roberto Salcedo announced that a series of activities is planned to commemorate the sisters.
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El Dia
16 March 2026