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Long after Her Tragic Death, We Follow in the Footsteps of the Dominican Republic’s First Female Doctor


The regime of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo all but erased Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo’s legacy after she died. But since his assassination in 1961, Dominicans have been gradually reclaiming her story

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