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In Dominican Republic (DR) stood three
Incredible souls … died forcibly by a dictator?
Lets ask question then proceed with answers
“How did the Maribal’s sisters influenced
… the women’s movement?

Who were the Maribal sisters?
Three sisters murdered by the dictator of DR Rafael Trujillo … because of their activism
All three were assassinated November 25, 1960

The awakening of the Women’s Liberation
Emerged late 1960’s .. 1963 and 1970 stretched
As in 1966 Betty Friedan’s book …
The Feminine Mystique …

Where National Organization for Women
Known as NOW (NOW)
Awoke the consciousness to be free …
Women of the world followed by this realism
Minerva, for her increased interest in the …

Political system became a threat as Trujillo
Had taken a love interest in her
she refused then slapped him
The other two sisters Patria and Maria Teresa

Fought and refused to give in to the dictatorship
And for their beliefs were tortured and sacrificed
Alive! They aimed to call themselves …
Las Mariposas, the butterflies

An underground name
In secrecy they strived
It was … Minerva
The braver of them

Las Mariposas by name, they became …
Credit goes to Salma Hayek … in the movies
For portraying Minerva based on Julia Alvarez Novel, where these women became symbolic

They turning themselves …
From simple unknown women
To the foundation of fighting a tyrant
They became known as “Las Mariposas”

The butterflies … With two lives like a caterpillar
Dead now alive …Today, and always will be Renamed three sisters died but, are more alive today than that of yesterday’s …

It should be known …
With the movement by their three husband’s
Called “14 June Movement” nicknamed 1J4
In Puerto Plata engraved, are their names

Patria hid weapons in her home …
To fight the Trujillo regimen …
A regime of endless wars with its women
Yea, today the Marbal’s sisters

One’s of DR iconic heroines …
Yea, iconic heroines! The start of women’s movement … Minerva had no fear …
Wanted to be an attorney to free its people

At the end she died like a true hero
Not in the Greek Mythology
In real life died aiming for freedom
La libertad … y amor puro, pure love

They rest today at the mausoleum
An extension of National Pantheon
Their death was not for nothing …
To the Dominicans, they seen as hero’s

They symbolized Dominican liberty
They served as proof that once’s lived
Three beautiful women souls’ who taught
… and died for freedom for their full beliefs

Being tortured by Trujillo regime they remained Symbols for woman’s power of popular
And feminist resistance … November 25, 1960
A date to remember not to-be forgotten

The UN General Assembly ink