This date was established in honour of the Dominicans Minerva, Patria and María Teresa Mirabal, three sisters murdered on 25N 1960, on the orders of the dictator Trujillo, according to popular accounts.
They were brutally beaten to death and bundled into a jeep to simulate an accident and thrown into a ravine in the Dominican Republic.
Many people say that Trujillo hated Minerva Mirabal, whom he had tried unsuccessfully to seduce a decade earlier.
In 1999, the UN declared every 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in honour of the brave Mirabal sisters, known by the nickname "the butterflies".
That is why on this day butterflies are painted in honour of the three sisters. Today you will see them flying all over the world...
Minerva Mirabal, the most active of the three butterflies, fearing that she would be assassinated, always said "If they kill me, I will take my arms out of the grave and I will be stronger".
Today, 38 women have been murdered in Spain in 2022 and all those who are not known have been killed for this cause; 1,171 since 2003... How many more women must die to create measures that work to fight these murderers? #AbogadasLancelot
