Comprehensive Minerva Timeline

1938- Inmaculada Concepcion and Sinita’s stories about Jefe. Develops anti-Trujillo ideals.

1941- Lina’s relationship with Trujillo.

1944- Performance of Minerva/Sinita and bow-n-arrow pointing at Trujillo.

1948- Meets Tio and they become ‘comrades in struggle.’ Lio’s name starts to appear regularly in papers and eventually has to leave. He invites Minerva to take asylum with him.

1949- Discovery Day Dance. Dances with Trujillo. Speaks to him about a law degree. She winds up slapping him after he acts inappropriately. Leaves letters. Her father is taken into custody shortly thereafter. Minverva and Mama hunt Papa down and Minerva gets picked up for questioning. She is confronted with letters and lying. Eventually they rendezvous with Papa inside of Trujillo’s office where they appeal for his release. Here again she brings up law school to Trujillo.

1953-Studying law in capitol.

1954- Meets Manolo in capitol. Takes liking to Fidel and his revolution in Cuba.

1955- Marries Monolo.

1957- Graduates from law school. Gets law degree but not license to practice. Manolo begins heavy involvement in revolutionary doings. Manolo and Minerva recruit Mate into national underground.

1959- Involvement in revolution gets heavier for everyone, now including Nelson.

1960-January to March- Husbands get taken. Sisters get taken shortly after. Manage to get a note to Patria revealing whereabouts and requesting supplies.

1960-March to August- Minerva exposed to much interrogation and solitary confinement. Is the glue that holds her people together. Helps keep morale with songs; assigns chores and responsibilities in attempt to keep sanity. Turns down freedom for pledged allegiance to Trujillo. Tries to persuade Mate to embellish treatment of her in OAS interview.

1960-August to November- House arrest. Revolution, by now, out of her hands. Distanced from it at Mamas house with sisters. Newly found appreciation for family life. Resides in life, spending most of her time petitioning for and visiting her husband. Their husbands are relocated to another prison, one that is further and more out of the way. On November 25, 1960 Minerva, Patria, and Mate were killed.