6BMST

James, Maddie, Calin, Kenji  __**Citations:**__  http://countrystudies.us/dominican-republic/11.htm http://ordstorm.dk/?attachment_id=2315

__**Day 1**__
 *  He encouraged __anti-Haitian prejudice and in 1937 ordered the massacre of thousands of Haitian migrants,__ an incident later dubbed __the Parsley Massacre.__
 * Grandfather is Haitian
 *  President John F. Kennedy favored __Joachim Balaguer__ as the temporary ruler of the Dominican Republic. As Kennedy remarked at the time: "Balaguer is our only tool. The anti-communist liberals are not strong enough. We must use our influence to take Balaguer along the road to democracy." To reinforce this policy a __US naval task force with 1,800__ US Marines __aboard appeared off the Dominican coast on 19th November 1961.__ As a result Trujillo and his supporters left the country. Once in power Balaguer began deporting all the major left-wing leaders in the Dominican Republic.
 *  Trujillo used his political control to obtain great personal wealth. He achieved __support from the United States by becoming Latin America's leading anti-communists.__ __Cordell Hull, Secretary of State (1933-1944) __, defended Trujillo by saying: " He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch."
 *  Ruled for 31 years
 * Trujillo assassinated in 1961
 * Supposedly the assassins wer supplied with weapons from the CIA
 *  Gang called "The 42" was important for his rise to power.
 *  Accepted refugees from Europe and donated 110 km^2 of property to settlements
 * Supported stronger environmental policies, such as banning the slash and burn method, and enlarged parks as well as creating a warden agency

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;"> > __Life in a Dictatorship:__ > >  __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Mirabal Sisters **__ > -Don Enrique, the father, was a merchant and farmer who owned his own prosperous store > __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Religion: **__
 * The other leading beneficiaries of the dictatorship--aside from Trujillo himself and his family--were those who associated themselves with the regime both politically and economically. The establishment of state monopolies over all major enterprises in the country brought riches to the Trujillo family and their cronies through the manipulation of prices and inventories as well as the outright embezzlement of funds.
 * Generally speaking, the quality of life improved for the average Dominican under Trujillo. Poverty persisted, but the economy expanded, the foreign debt disappeared, the currency remained stable, and the middle class expanded. Public works projects enhanced the road system and improved port facilities; airports and public buildings were constructed, the public education system grew, and illiteracy declined. These advances might well have been achieved in even greater measure under a responsive democratic government, but to Dominicans, who had no experience with such a government, the results under Trujillo were impressive.
 * Although he never tested his personal popularity in a free election, some observers feel that Trujillo could have won a majority of the popular vote up until the final years of his dictatorship.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Mirabal-Reyes family was a prosperous family from a town in Salcedo called Ojo de Agua
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Mirabal-Reyes family was a prosperous family from a town in Salcedo called Ojo de Agua.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Enrique Mirabal Fernandez and Mercedes Reyes Camilo, aka Chea, were married in 1923.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">the four Mirabal sisters — Patria Mercedes, Bélgica Adela (known as Dedé), Minerva Argentina, and Maria Teresa - were raised with their extended family very close by.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Enrique Mirabal Fernandez was a merchant and farmer who owned his own farm, shop, coffee mill, meat market, and rice factory.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">In 1938, the oldest three of the sisters — Patria, Dedé, and Minerva— were sent to Inmaculada Concepción, a Catholic secondary school in La Vega.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Minerva Mirabal was the first of the sisters to become involved in the underground movements to overthrow the government. She was inspired to do so by her friend’s at Inmaculada stories, whose relatives had been arrested, tortured, and killed by Trujillo's men.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Minerva, a patriotic liberal, understood politics and aspired to study law. She was governed by her sense of right and wrong and was unafraid to stand up for what she believed in.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">In the 1940's, she met Pericles Franco Ornes, the founder of the Popular Socialist Party. He was a known anti-trujillista and had been jailed various times for his political activities.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Other influences on Minerva's growing anti-Trujillo sentiments included leftist literature and the illegally intercepted radio stations from Cuba and Venezuela that objectively discussed the political situation in the Dominican Republic.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Dominican Republic was mostly Catholic and it played a large role in politics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Presidents who established larger ties with the church were the most popular
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Catholicism was key in uniting the Dominican Republic with Spain

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 23px;">4/26/12

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Quotes: __
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">Patria:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">page 151- Naming of Ernesto
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">page 168- Relation of farming to the revolution (Familiar and passionate about)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">Maria Teresa:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">page 135- When she is marching in the parade and sees Trujillo's daughter
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">page 121- "The right foot is for someone you love..."
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">page 142- Mate officially decides to become part of the "us" he was talking about (Rebellion)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Minerva:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">page 136- Needing to suck up to Trujillo and the love one needed to show towards him
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">page 115- She looks at El Jefe's dice as if they were even not on an uneven ground (Shows her willingness to rebel & clash w/ Trujillo)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> page 108- She tells Mama that its all the same fight rather than her worrying about many separate ones
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dede:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">page 83- Her sleeping with a pillow as a way to still hold onto Lio while having something Minerva doesn't (The letters she destroys form Lio) (Love for sister vs. love for Lio)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">page 75- When she thinks how Lio is an enemy of the state (Beginning of her revolutionary journey?)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">__Questions/Concerns:__
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">What is driving these girls to become involved and more driven for the revolution in the D.R
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Dede does not take as active as a role like her other sisters
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">She creates business and seems to mind her own business rather than focus on revolutionary battle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Why each girl does what she does?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Apparent selfishness and self-involved revolution
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Patria must have something happen to get her involved
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Yet these girls are still people, with unhelpful human emotions of jealousy, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Lio seems to use the Mirabal family
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Question of love and romance or revolution
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">The inner battle and decision in all of the sisters to decide which to choose or put on hold
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">When is it necessary to put your political voice ahead of your family and vice versa
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Why are the men all "bad" people within the novel?