Everyone knew of Las Mariposas - “The Butterflies.”Īuthor Julia Alvarez, also a daughter of the Dominican Republic and long haunted by these sisters, immerses us in a tangled and dangerous moment in Hispanic Caribbean history to tell their story in the only way it can truly be understood - through fiction. Raphael Leonidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. Nor did it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reported their deaths as an accident and did not mention that a fourth sister lived. On November 25, 1960, the bodies of three convent-educated sisters were found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic.
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