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...Mirabal were brutally murdered on a remote mountain road in the Dominican Republic. They were on their way home after visiting their husbands in prison (Mujica 328). Rafael Trujillo, the island nation's dictator and he ruled with an iron hand from 1930 to 1961, is believed to have ordered the murder of the three sisters and may have played a role in the actual brutality (Mujica 328). Like their husbands, the Mirabal sisters were well-known revolutionaries and worked under the code name "Butterflies" (Mujica 328). Trujillo considered them to be a threat. After their deaths, the "Butterflies" became national heroines and Dede, the only surviving sister, became spokesperson for the family, relating their story (Mujica 328).
Julia Alvarez, a native of the Dominican Republic, comes from a family that participated in the underground to oppose Trujillo. Consequently, she grew up hearing stories about the three famous women, the Butterflies (Mujica 328). As a novelist, Alvarez created In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) as a tribute to...