Minou Tavarez Mirabal

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Minerva Josefina Tavárez Mirabal (born August 31, 1956 in Ojo de Agua, Hermanas Mirabal , Dominican Republic ), known by her nickname Minou , is a Dominican philologist, professor and politician. It is since 2002 deputy for the District National in the Chamber of Deputies and was from 1996 to 2000 Deputy Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic.

Tavárez was a candidate for the Alliance for Democracy and Democratic Choice parties in the 2016 presidential election in the Dominican Republic .

Youth and family

Minou's parents are Dominican lawyers and activists María Argentina Minerva Mirabal and Manuel Aurelio Tavárez Justo . In 1960 they founded the secret movement on June 14th , which was supposed to overthrow the dictator Rafael Trujillo . Her mother was murdered in 1960 by the dictatorship, her father in 1963 by the triumvirate , the three-member junta that overthrew the legitimate government under Juan Bosch in 1963 . Minou was an orphan in 1963 at the age of seven. Her parents were viewed as martyrs and national heroes.

Tavárez is the cousin and foster sister of Jaime David Fernández Mirabal , a former Vice President of the Dominican Republic.

Minou Tavárez attended the Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús de Salcedo elementary school . She learned languages, particularly French and English, in Côte-des-Neiges , Canada . She has degrees in philology and degrees from the University of Havana and degrees in Latin American literature . She also holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset at the Complutense University of Madrid , Spain .

She was married to the architect Doroteo Rodriguez and is a mother of two children, Camila and Manuel Aurelio Minerva.

Scientific career

Minou Tavárez was Professor and Director of the Faculty of Spanish Language at the Universidad APEC (UNAPEC) in Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic. She worked as a researcher for Dominican literature at the Centro de Estudios del Caribe (CEC) and for Hispanic literature at the Centro de Investigaciones Literarias (CIL) of the Casa de las Américas in Havana , Cuba .

Political career

Minou Tavárez was Deputy Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000. For the period from 2002 to 2006 she was a representative in the Congress of the Dominican Republic and was re-elected for the periods 2002–2006 and 2010–2016. Minou Tavárez is President of the Committee on Foreign and International Cooperation of the House of Representatives and a member of several other committees.

She was vice-president of the Confederación de Parlamentarios de las Américas  (COPA) and a member of the Comité Ejecutivo  de Parlamentarios para la Acción Global  (PGA).

In 2011 she brought out the book "El Camino que Traigo Conmigo", in which speeches and articles are compiled.

From 1995 to 2014 she was a member of the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD). On August 23, 2015, she presented her own party Opción Democrática. The goals of the new party were stated to be "reducing inequality, eradicating poverty, independent justice, respect for minorities, non-discrimination, guaranteeing individual rights, economic development, fair distribution of income and the pursuit of politics as a service to the common good".

Minou Tavárez Mirabal has been deputy chairwoman of the small civil rights party Alianza País since 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minou será candidata presidencial de Alianza por la Democracia y Opción Democrática. In: acento.com.do. October 15, 2015, archived from the original on November 5, 2015 ; Retrieved February 18, 2017 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Argelia Villegas López: Minou Tavárez Mirabal: “Las hermanas Mirabal han legitimado la lucha de las mujeres universalmente”. In: amecopress.net. Ameco Press, December 5, 2007, accessed February 18, 2017 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Natalí Faxas: Minou Tavárez, una mujer familiar, fuerte y de ideales. (No longer available online.) In: El Caribe. January 20, 2016, archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; Retrieved February 18, 2017 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elcaribe.com.do
  4. ↑ Pablo Ml. Valdez Galan: Biography Minerva Josefina Tavárez Mirabal. (PDF, 214 kB) Cámara de Diputados República Dominicana, February 21, 2011, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 18, 2017 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ La renuncia de Minou Tavárez Mirabal del PLD. In: acento.com.do. May 24, 2014, Retrieved February 18, 2017 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ Minou lanzará de manera oficial su partido el día 23. (No longer available online.) In: opciondemocratica.com. August 4, 2015, archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; Retrieved February 18, 2017 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.opciondemocratica.com
  7. ↑ Minou Tavárez Lanzara este domingo Opción Democrática. In: Diario Hispaniola. August 20, 2015, Retrieved February 18, 2016 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Tavarez Mirabal, Minou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tavárez Mirabal, Minerva Josefina; Minou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dominican philologist, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Ojo de Agua, Hermanas Mirabal , Dominican Republic