Por favor Note: Que dependiendo de su velocidad de coneccion de Internet el video se cargara, entre 10 segundos a mas si tiene velocidad lenta. El formato es DIVX

In the Time of the Butterflies

In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name, covering the lives of the Mirabal sisters. In the movie, Salma Hayek plays one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays the Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo whom the sisters opposed. Marc Anthony plays a brief role as Minerva's first love, and as the motivation for her later revolutionary activities.

Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York, her parents returned to their native Dominican Republic when she was three months of age and raised her there until she was ten. In 1960, the family fled back to the United States, after her father participated in the underground against the military dictator, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. Three months later the leaders of the underground railroad, the Mirabal sisters, were murdered. She based her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, on those murders. It was subsequently made into a film produced by Salma Hayek. She is currently writer-in-residence at Middlebury College and the owner of a coffee farm named Alta Gracia, near Jarabacoa in the mountains of the Dominican Republic. The farm hosts a DREAM school to teach local farmers and their families how to read and write.