![]() Readers often ask if I am a political writer. ![]() My hope is that this story will make the pleas of those seeking refuge from violent regimes ever more credible, and their plight more vivid. In the name of national sovereignty and safety, governments are violating the rights of those seeking political asylum, even though these rights are protected and guaranteed by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which many of these countries are signatories. Now, fifty-nine years after their murder and twenty-five years since the publication of this novel, violence against helpless and hapless groups of people is still a fact of life in the United States, in Latin America, and throughout the world. On that date women and men stand in solidarity with their daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, to eliminate violence around the world. ![]() They inspired the United Nations to establish November 25, the day of their murder, as an international day to eliminate all violence against women. They inspired novels, movies, plays, dances. ![]() Three lives were eliminated, but the Mirabal sisters didn’t disappear. The story of four young women from a small country mobilized a whole nation to liberate itself from a thirty-one-year dictatorship and empowered a global movement. I believe in the power of stories to change the world. ![]()
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