This is a good film for simply raising awareness of this slice of West Indian history. I was reminded of the Soviet classic "I am Cuba". I wasn't aware that similar revolutionary circumstances existed in the Dominican Republic, but it makes sense that they did. The film leaves one outraged that these right-wing regimes were ever permitted to flourish in the western hemisphere, and brings home the fact that real democracy and revolutionary socialism are essentially the same thing.
Review of In the Time of the Butterflies
