Orange Days: Who were the history-making Mirabal sisters?
accident
On November 25, 1960, three sisters — Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal — were found dead at the bottom of a ravine near La Cumbre, a mountainous stretch of road in the Dominican Republic . The jeep they were traveling in had plunged 150 meters into a mangled heap. It looked like an accident — except their bodies, and that of their driver, bore signs of beating and strangulation. The Dominican Republic was then under the rule of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, a dictator whose over 30-
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