Between 1930 and the day of his assassination in 1961, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, also known as “El Chivo,” turned the Dominican Republic into a dictatorship rife with abuses. State-orchestrated murders, gender-based violence, artistic and sporting spectacles, and absolute media control were the tools used by one of the 20th century's most grotesque tyrants to dominate the people. Only a few brave individuals risked their lives to stand against him. Minerva Mirabal, nicknamed “The Butterfly,” was one of them. A unique woman—beautiful, educated, and committed—whose short life hastened the end of “El Chivo’s feast.”
