Travel Blog Photos from Salcedo (11)
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![]() | Salcedo, Dominican Republic |
... It is good thing they did not mention how long it would take to get to her site. I guess distance is relative in the Dominican Republic. Someone could say, "It is just down the street." Try a few miles or over a mountain. Come on, ...
... Trujillo era. The Mirabal sisters aka. the Mariposas or Butterflies fought against the Trujillo dictorship in the 1950s in the Dominican Republic. Their family lived in the northern part of the country in a small town called Ojo de ...
Today we took a brief excursion to the museum of Las Hermanas Mirabal - The Mirabal Sisters. These women heavily opposed the dictatorship of Trujillo and headed a revolutionary movement. Tragically, three of the sisters were killed by Trujillo ...
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