In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)

This film was filmed in the Dominican Republic you can even see it in the movie the artifacts and the people. This film was filmed in the, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC in Santiago and also near where the sisters died. I absolutely love the movie its missing a lot more to the history things that Trujillo did, his plans to assassinate the president of Colombia and other countries as well. I love how they each look like the Mirabal sisters. Salma Hayek did an amazing job and this was how i first knew about her from acting in this movie. I didn't know that there was still one more Mirabal sister alive the youngest i believe and shes maintaining and taking care of the town they group up in and there gardin they played in when they were little. Giving the other kids knowledge of there History. They made a video Documentary of her and her life now after all these years. I love Dominican Republic and all of my people i think the biggest issue in DR is Haitian Immigration. Its gotten out of hand i hope it gets better in the future. I love you DR. RIP Mirabal sisters QUE VIVA LAS MARIPOSAS!

This was a real good movie. Later in time in the Dominican Republican they had a government named Trujillo. What ever Trujillo said went. If someone in the household did something bad, the man of the house would be the one to be sent to prison, killed , or tortured. At a party one of the Mirabal sisters got into it with Trujillo after he touched her butt and she slapped him. She was the outgoing one out of the sisters. She felt as though he deserved it because he disrespected her by doing that. There father was soon captured and sent to prison and tortured. Years later the Mirabal sisters and their husband were arrested for spreading the word about Trujillo. The Mirabal sisters were let out first but they kept their husbands imprisoned. One day they were coming back from the prison to try and get their husbands out and on the way back they were stopped on the road because Trujillo felt that they had done wrong. They were dragged into a collard patch and beaten to death and killed. This movie was really really good you should watch it too.

In case you've never heard of Rafael Trujillo, he seized power in the Dominican Republic in a 1930 coup, and ruled the country through terror, torture, and assassination over the next thirty years. "In the Time of the Butterflies" portrays the Mirabal sisters, who sought to overthrow him. The movie did a worthy job looking at their lives, although it could have gone into life under Trujillo's regime a little more. Salma Hayek plays Minerva Mirabal and Edward James Olmos plays Trujillo.Another interesting thing about Trujillo was that, although the US gladly propped him up for so many years, the CIA ended up assassinating him. You see, Trujillo had - like Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein - been using his position to enrich himself rather than the US. So, the CIA assassinated him in 1961. For further information, read "The CIA's Greatest Hits" by Mark Zepezauer.

By watching this movie, I was educated in that women are abused severely in so many other cultures for reasons we take for granted in the United States. I did not know that women in the Dominican Republic were abused and/or beaten to death for protesting corruptness. I am an American born Black woman of Hispanic origin (Puerto Rican heritage).A lot of us born to Black women and Hispanic fathers outside of wedlock do not know much of our heritage due to the separation of our parents and most of us are raised solely as Black children. As an adult, I am embracing my Hispanic heritage. I need to learn more of my father's culture. I cannot learn from him because he has passed on, but he never stopped looking for his ángela negra pequeña.I plan to use this movie in my English Literature class in honor of March's Women's month.We must abolish domestic violence against women all over the world! Women are the creatures God put on this earth to reproduce. Such violence against women must end. What better place to deter violence against women than educating young men in school.Please continue to bring new material to us.