MIRABAL SISTER AT RESISTANCE MUSEUM

The Dominican Resistance Memorial Museum is exhibiting a selection of restored clothing sewn and worn by the Mirabal sisters who were slain in 1960 at the orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The exhibition of the "The Mirabal Sisters Textile Collection" seeks to give people a closer, more human look at the heroines, who have since become symbols of the struggle to eliminate violence against women. Known as the "Butterflies," Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal led an opposition movement against Trujillo (1930-1961).