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In the Time of the Butterflies

A play based on Julia Alvarez's novel captures the Dominican Republic heroes' fight against dictatorship

by: Erasmo Guerra, from: AARP VIVA, March 7, 2011

En español | When the Mirabal sisters took up arms in the late 1950s against General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorial regime in the Dominican Republic, reports of these ordinary women taking extraordinary risks proved so empowering to the people that the sisters were ordered killed. Ever since, the legacy of Patria, Dedé, Minerva and María Teresa has been handed down, and not just by elders who endured that oppressive era. Books and films have commemorated the sisters' bravery. … Back to Article

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