Thursday is the UN-designated International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It is a noble cause with a somewhat clunky title, but behind it lies a truly remarkable story. On 25 ...

Patria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal—three sisters from a middle class family, all married with children—may not have seemed the most likely revolutionaries. But living under the Dominican ...

Seventy five years ago, thousands of Haitians were murdered in the Dominican Republic by a brutal dictator. It was one of the 20th Century's least-remembered acts of genocide. As many as 20,000 people ...

Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo has done many harsh acts and some stupid ones in his 30 years in power. But perhaps none has ever matched the deed he was accused of last week. The ...

After they were murdered by Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican Republic’s ruthless dictator, Dedé Mirabal made sure that the world knew of their resistance to him. By Gavin Edwards This article is part of ...

As we commemorate Memorial Day this weekend in the U.S., the Dominican Republic’s people mark 60 years since the fall of Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship on May 30, 1961. Considered Latin-America’s ...

Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal were sisters from the Dominican Republic who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo; they were assassinated on November 25, 1960, under orders from ...

The three Mirabal sisters were leading figures in the Dominican Republic's opposition movement against the dictator, General Rafael Trujillo. Patria, Maria Teresa and the most prominent of the three, ...