Yet the cover-up was poorly executed, as the sisters had been snatched on a road in front of civilian witnesses. Despite Trujillo’s censorship, the Dominican people saw through his story and understood that the faces of the resistance had been murdered in cold blood. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back – a cornerstone of Trujillo’s regime was the domestication of women, framing them as figures of maternal propriety to be looked after. Though he tortured and killed women in the opposition, this, like his sexual abuse, was censored. However, the Mirabal sisters’ deaths could not be
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