Pioneering Female Doctor Evangelina Rodríguez Faced a Dictator’s Reign of Terror
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April 3, 2025, 1:00 PM
- •Evangelina Rodríguez was the first female doctor in the Dominican Republic.
- •She was a pioneer in women's health and family planning.
- •She was outspoken in her criticism of the Trujillo regime.
- •She was arrested, tortured, and died of starvation in 1947.
Evangelina Rodríguez was a trailblazing Dominican doctor who was ahead of her time in her views on women's health and family planning. But her work and her life were upended by the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.
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Evangelina RodríguezRafael TrujilloMilcíades HerreraMercedes Fernández AsenjoApril MayesElizabeth Manley
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