Latinx Community and the United States: What's Important?

On page 3 of Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez describes an interviewer coming over to interview Dede. In this description, Alvarez describes the interviewer as someone who is "from here but has lived many years in the States" (p. 3) and that the interviewer says "the Mirabal sisters are not known there, for which she is also sorry for it is a crime that they should be forgotten, these unsung heroines of the underground" (p. 3). This reminds me a lot of what Ada Limon talks about in her poem, "The Contract Says" about only wanting the uncomfortable stories and nothing that makes one complicit or that makes them seem to much like you. To me, Alvarez seems to be representing this idea that individuals from the U.S. only want to hear stories about the violence that people from the Latinx community experience - as if that's all that Latinx communities can talk about. As well as the interviewer says the sisters have been forgotten, but it seems to me they haven't been forgotten because Dede and her family still remember - it's just people in the U.S. that don't know and who's to say that the attention of the U.S. is what's most important. This says something about it's important who remembers. The fact that Dede and her family remember isn't important. It also implies that there was something about the Mirabal sisters' stories that is important to remember over the other Dominicans who probably experienced very similar things - such as Sinita's story. While it is important to remember and know about Latinx stories - the way one talks about them should avoid this idolization of the individuals solely based on this violence they have experienced. As well as the fact that this interviewer came to talk about the violence she experienced within the Dominican Republic instead of choosing to speak to someone within the U.S. who has experienced violence the U.S. If this has happened today, I would wonder why aren't the interviewers addressing the violence the U.S. has brought against the Latinx community within the U.S. such as the El Paso shootings. Going back to Limon's poem, this speaks to not wanting to listen to stories that make the U.S. complicit in the violence. They only want to listen to stories that the U.S. did not instigate.

What does the interviewer's comments imply about the Mirabal sisters?
What makes the Mirabal sisters' story more important to learn about over any other Latinx individual such as Sinita?