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or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at IntoHistory.com. It's late evening on November 25th, 1960, on a remote mountain road in the north of the Dominican Republic.

Swaying in the back of a jeep, 24-year-old Minerva Mirabal sits between her sisters,

their shoulders knocking. The heavy rain and twisting roads makes it an unpleasant drive,

but it's one that Mirabal's sisters are happy to take because it's the only way they've been

able to see their husbands. All three men are political prisoners, incarcerated for their

opposition to the country's president.

And after having spent just a short time with them in the visiting room of their remote prison,

the sisters are now returning home. So far, it's been a quiet journey. But up ahead, two pairs of

headlights suddenly cut through the gloom. But as she gets closer, Minerva realizes that the lights aren't moving.

Their vehicles blocking the road.

And Minerva thinks she can see soldiers waiting in the shadows.

The mirror-ball's driver has no choice but to stop.

An officer wraps on the car's window.

Without saying a word, the driver winds it down

and hands over his identification.

As the officer glances at the ID, soldiers abruptly open the driver's door and drag the man out.

One by one, the Mirabal sisters are then pulled out as well.

As they're marched away from the road, Minerva twists her head and glances toward her sister's pale faces, panic

rising in her chest.

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