Manolo is raised in memory of the country

Minou Tavárez Mirabal feels that his father, Manolo Tavárez, revolutionary and political leader, so they have killed three times. 48 Years of its execution, States impotent, that this type of crime, apart that has no sanction, in the families never closes wounds or the forces of the desgarradura.

The last conversation between them was by telephone. He told her that her aunt, doña Dedé Mirabal, her would seek to return it to Salcedo from Santo Domingo. It would be under his care should anything happen to him.

Tavárez was gunned down by soldiers on December 21, 1963 with 28 guerrillas in Las Manaclas, San José las Matas, mountain after revolt calling for the return to constitutionality after the coup to President Juan Bosch. Minou was seven years old.

His mother Minerva Mirabal, who three years before she was murdered by the nation with her sisters Patria and Maria tyranny u000aTeresa, was in charge of that at an early age learn to read and write.

In the House of the maternal grandmother, doña Chea, worked a gentleman who called Genaro, who heard saying: "What penalty with the deceased Manolo".

Minou sought what means the word "deceased" in the dictionary and thus found itself that his father was dead.

Ran and hid in the courtyard to mourn bereaved. Already at the age of 16, while studying at Canada saw in a magazine photos of how he killed his father. For the first time said, realized that Manolo did not die in combat, but that it was riddled with shots. For her this was the second death of his father. But the real grief suffered on November 25, 2000, when his remains were unearthed to take them to the Museum of the Mirabal sisters, in Conuco, Salcedo.

Is the sum of all this pain for her the third death of his father. Above, related to his father, was u000afor references, cloud memory, stories not endorsed, memories rendered.

The traditional broad smile of the current Member is absent when it recalled these painful moments. At stake their black blouse with his jet hair. His gaze was lost searching for memories of a daughter who grew up listening to versions and reading how eliminated their parents.

A man who loved
Minou remembers him as a man who loved much, she, her mother and to Dominican Republic.

When they left prison on July 26, 1961, after the fall of dictator Rafael Trujillo regime which it locked up by their conspiracies that mobilized large youth of the time, she was four years old. He brought her to live in the capital, in the sector Gascue. They talked much, he sang and it evoked how fell in love to Minerva, singing songs such as "Girl in big black eyes". Also, items with crudities, in response to his curiosity of lacerations in his arms. u000a

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