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The story is a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters, Dominican revolutionary activists, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25, 1960. In the film, Salma Hayek played one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays Trujillo.
The Mirabal sisters (Spanish: hermanas Mirabal [eɾˈmanas miɾaˈβal]) were three sisters from the Dominican Republic, three of whom (Patria, Minerva and María Teresa) opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (el Jefe) and were involved in activities against his regime. [1] The three sisters were assassinated on 25 November 1960.
Tropic of Blood (Spanish: Trópico de sangre) (2010) – Dominican historical film based on the true story of the Dominican Republic's heroic Mirabal sisters [131] True Heroes (Spanish: Héroes verdaderos ) (2010) – Mexican animated biographical adventure film chronicling the adventures of the heroes of Mexicans independence Miguel Hidalgo ...
María Minerva Mirabal Reyes (March 12, 1926 - November 25, 1960), or Minerva, was a Dominican political activist and revolutionary. She was the third of the Mirabal sisters, [1] Minerva and her sisters began to speak out against the oppressive dictatorship of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and conducted clandestine activities against his regime.
In July 2008, the president of the Minerva Mirabal Foundation, Carlos Leiter, publicly criticized the film, specifically the involvement of actress Michelle Rodriguez due to her past legal issues. Leiter threatened to sue Rodriguez and her co-producers citing illegal use of the Mirabal name, unless charitable organizations of his choice ...
Patria, Minerva and Antonia Mirabal, for example, helped overthrow dictator Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic in the late 1950s. In the arts, writers who challenged the feminine status quo ...
Located at St. John's Methodist Church, "¡Time for Affirmative Consent!" combines the story of the Mirabal Sisters, in whose name the day honors, with performance and a silent auction. The ...
The Mirabal sisters’ efforts to challenge the regime cost them their lives, but it also sparked a revolution and made them symbols of both democratic and feminist resistance, as Time reported.