Salcedo is the capital city of the Hermanas Mirabal Province in the Dominican Republic. It is famous for being the birthplace of the Dominican heroines, the Mirabal sisters who gave their lives in the struggle against the dictator Rafael Trujillo. There is a museum in the town, Ojo de Agua commemorating three of sisters who were killed in the struggle against dictatorship. It was tended to by the remaining sister, Bélgica Mirabal, until her death on February 1, 2014. The city is named after Francisco Antonio Salcedo who fought in the northwestern part of the country against the Haitian army during the Dominican-Haitian War after the Dominican independ...
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