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Pioneering Female Doctor Evangelina Rodríguez Faced a Dictator’s Reign of Terror


Beginning in the 1930s, the work—and eventually the life—of Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo, the Dominican Republic’s first female doctor, became threatened by the country’s then new dictator

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