martes, 26 de noviembre de 2019

25-N Día Internacional para la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer


IN TIME OF BUTTERFLIES
Do you know who the Mirabal sisters were? Where did they live? What nationality were they?
Four stunning sisters made history in the Dominican Republic by fighting for equal rights during Trujillo dictatorship.
Minerva, María Teresa, Patria and Dedé Mirabal grew up on a farm that cultivated cacao and atonishing orchild flowers. They were a simple, middle-class Dominican family.
Although it was a fantastic country, The Dominican Republic was ruled by a vicious and fritening tyrant named Rafael Trujillo who was controlling the country. He was called El Jefe, “The Boss”.
No one publicly disagreed with him, nobody was allowed to leave a room before Trujillo, everybody was supposed to appreciated El Jefe. Over 50 thousand people were killed during his years as president. There were many poor people in the country, people were starved. Trujillo took all the money from taxes and put most of it in his personal bank account.
The sisters began to fight for freedom, democracy and against poverty. Secret meetings were held, weapons were hidden in their homes, and food was provided for those who were running from the government. And so began the family chase. The Mirabal sisters' father was imprisioned. Trujillo used people to achieve his ambition for power. He got married twice and divorced his second wife to marry his mistress. Because he used marriage as a tool to rise in power, it can be assumed that Trujillo had little respect for women. Therefore, when he made the decision to murder the Mirabal sisters, he was not seeing three women but just three things which were standing in his way of ultimate power. Women were considered by Trujillo as objects to be used for his pleasure. A great woman was only meant to please him. A beautiful woman was not supposed to have a mind of revolutionary ideas, something that Minerva showed eagerly. And when she rejected his proposals,it was an attack for his ego. The sisters' husbands were imprisioned.
So, on the 25th of November 1960, the butterflies went to the prison to visit their husbands along with their driver, Rufino de la Cruz. After the visit, on their way home, they were stopped by men sent by Trujillo. Patria, Minerva, Maria Teresa, and de la Cruz were clubbed to death. Their bodies were gathered back in their Jeep, which was run off the mountain road so that their deaths would look like an accident.
In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated 25th November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in honour of the

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