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Margaret, Thomas, Maya, John

Mirabal sisters
 * Sisters followed Minerva against Trujillo
 * Sisters' persistence inspired locals
 * Trujillo had them killed by secret police but Dede survived
 * Museum dedicated to them
 * Joined resistance group "Movement of the 14th of June"
 * Minerva and Maria Teresa were jailed and tortured
 * Three of the girls' husbands were placed in jail as well

Trujillo
 * Liked Minerva Mirabal
 * Came into power in 1930 on August 16th
 * Came in after peaceful Vasquez administration era (1924-1930)
 * Commander of National Army
 * From a humble background
 * In army under U.S.
 * Used military power to eliminate competition and intimidate political officials ending up 95% of the vote
 * Ruled 31 years
 * Parsley massacre in Haiti and killed 20,000 people (used parsley to determine if victims were Haitian)
 * Had a secret police
 * Predujice against Haitians
 * Placed statues and used his name to promote awareness and forced the populace to love him by using his secret police as intimidation
 * poverty continued but economy expanded; middle class became bigger
 * Nickname "El Jefe"
 * Motivated; woke up early and worked hard to keep his power and position
 * Like women
 * Assassinated in May 30th 1961 (age 69)

Dominican Repulic prior to Trujillo's Rule
 * Culture
 * U.S. occupied
 * "Banana wars" U.S. was looking into Central America for their own interest
 * Socially and Economically prosperous
 * Administration respected political and social rights
 * Vasquez extended his term and broke the law losing the peoples respect
 * Religion
 * Catholic like most of Central America
 * Nuns and Priest
 * Catholic schools (Mirabal sisters attended one)

D.R. under Trujillo
 * Life in a Dictatorship
 * Fascism
 * People who resisted his rule would be killed
 * Forced to look to Trujillo as god because his name would always be placed next to god
 * suppressed the Church creating a tension in their relationship
 * Religion was very important and prevalent

D.R. after Trujillo
 * Feb 1963 elected Juan Bosch but he was overthrown in April of 1965
 * U.S. sent marines in and occupied
 * 1978 Dominican Revolution party experienced freedom and rights for a period of time
 * 1996 Dominican Liberation party took power
 * 2000 Dominican Revolution took power time of economic troubles

Relationships between the U.S. and the Dominican Repulic, U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic
 * Occupations before and after Trujillo's rule
 * U.S. left open position that let Trujillo come to power
 * After Trujillo U.S. did not want communist to seize control as they did in Cuba
 * Yanqui invaders

Discussion of part two
 * Patria love for everyone (feels need to protect everyone) (162)
 * Patria moves from passive to active
 * Patria cares more about protection than the polotics of the war
 * Maria Teresa driven into the revolution out of love (leandro quote from quiz)
 * Minerva in the revolution for justice
 * Dede's jealousy of Minerva (burning letter as well as volleyball game) (169-170)
 * Dede more reserved, hesitant, timid
 * sitting on the sidelines watching the game rather like telling the story from the sidelines
 * Dede's reservations about marriage (176,180)
 * Dede does what is expected of her
 * Dede buries the passion that all her sisters act on
 * Dede counterpoint (normal) like Maria Teresa in the first part of the book
 * Maria Teresa's personality and motivations do not change much from part one
 * Leandro is more important to Maria Teresa than the revolution (146-147)
 * Focusing on outside world rather than herself as she writes in her journal less
 * Felt left out because of the lack of someone to love
 * Child order (oldest, middle, and youngest)
 * rain maybe trujillo saturating everything