Description: (Political Activists)
Patria Mercedes Mirabal Reyes played a pivotal role in the resistance against the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. She supported her sisters in their political endeavors by providing her house as a storage location for weapons and tools used by rebels. Patria's involvement in the resistance movement against Trujillo's government eventually resulted in the assassination of the Mirabal sisters, turning them into national heroines and icons of popular and feminist resistance.