Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, Julia Alvarez is what we read.

In class we read the book “In

the Time of the Butterflies” written by Julia Alvarez. The book is about a harsh time in the Dominican
Republic, in where a leader by the name of Rafeal Trujillo, one of the most successful dictators to go
down in history. He had made life for the citizens of the Dominican Republic hell. It would of never come
to an end until the citizens finally took a stand for their beliefs, and won back there country.

On the night of Tuesday, May 30, 1961, Trujillo was shot dead on Avenida George Washington in
Santo Domingo. He was the victim of an ambush plotted by Modesto Diaz, Salvador Estrella Sadhalá,
Antonio de la Maza, Amado García Guerrero, Manuel Cáceres Michel (Tunti), Juan Tomás Diaz, Roberto
Pastoriza, Luis Amiama Tió, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Pedro Livio Cedeño, and Huáscar Tejeda. According
to U.S. reporter Bernard Diederich, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) planned the operation to kill
the dictator