![]() “Forgiving implies forgetting, and I will never forget,” she said. Revulsion at the killings of three defenseless women is credited with bringing about the overthrow of Trujillo - who was assassinated just a few months later, in 1961.Īsked if she thinks Trujillo ordered the deaths of her mother and two aunts, Guzman Mirabal said, “Yes, Trujillo ordered their deaths. “When I found out that the Mirabal sisters/had fallen I said to myself:/our established society has died,” wrote the poet Pedro Mir in his poem “Amen de Mariposas.” The deaths of the sisters were made to look like an automobile accident, but no one was fooled. It seeks to teach young audiences the values of democracy.” “The movie intends to propagate the struggle of the Mirabal sisters for democracy in the Dominican Republic. “My grandmother and aunt dedicated their efforts to raising me and my cousins as well as working to keep Dominican history alive for future generations,” she said during a recent interview via email.Īs for “Tropico de Sangre,” “The family not only approved of it, but cooperated in the production of the script,” she said. Guzman Mirabal was a baby when her 25-year-old mother was killed. ![]() Guzman Mirabal will be on hand to take questions from the audience.Ī fourth Mirabal sister, Dede Mirabal, was not in the car that fateful Nov. ![]() Saturday in Razzo Hall at the Traina Center for the Arts, Clark University. “The movie serves its purpose, which is to keep the story of the Mirabal Sisters alive,” said Jacqueline Guzman Mirabal, daughter of Maria Teresa. It will be shown in Worcester on Saturday as part of the 16th Latino Film Festival. The 2010 Dominican movie “Tropico de Sangre” (“Tropic of Blood”), starring Michelle Rodriguez as Minerva Mirabal, tells a story that might be unfamiliar to some, but it will never be forgotten by others. Raised in a well-to-do family, the sisters had been outspoken in their opposition to longtime Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo, who is widely believed to have ordered the killings. 25, 1960, on a country road in the Dominican Republic after returning from visiting their jailed husbands. They are remembered as the “Dominican Butterflies.” Maria Teresa, Minerva and Patria Mirabal were sisters who were brutally murdered Nov.
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