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The Mirabal sisters grew up in a high class, well cultured environment. All became married, family women. When Trujillo came to power, their family lost almost all of their fortune. They believed that Trujillo would send their country into economic chaos, and went on to form a group of opposers to the Trujillo regime. Inside that group, they were known as Las Mariposas, or The Butterflies. They were incarcerated many times, and tortured. Despite these setbacks, they went on with their fight to try to put an end to Trujillo's dictatorship. After numerous imprisonments, Trujillo decided to get rid of the sisters. On November 25, 1960, he sent men to intercept the three after they visited their husbands in prison. The three women were unarmed. They were led into a cane field and beaten and strangled to death.

Trujillo believed at the time that he had gotten rid of a big problem. However, having the three sisters killed backfired at him, because the Dominican public became more keen of the Mirabal sisters and their cause, which contributed to Trujillo's assassination six months later in 1961. The killing of the Mirabal sisters caused a general public outrage in their native country.

The Mirabal sisters are buried in Aguas BuenasAguas Buenas is a municipality of Puerto Rico. See also United States Municipalities of Puerto Rico. in the U.S.The United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in insular area of Puerto RicoThe Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico") is a self-governing unincorporated organized territory of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic. Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Gr.

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In 1995, Dominican-American author Julia Alvarez released the popular novel " In the Time of the Butterflies", a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters. The novel went on to become the 2001 movie In the Time of the Butterflies, with Salma Hayek playing Minerva and Edward James Olmos as Trujillo.