Estrada Cabrera
Americannoun
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The prize renewed interest in “Mr. President,” which draws from the autocratic reign from 1898 to 1920 of the Guatemalan dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera.
From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2022
The dictator isn’t named either, but he is based on a real person: Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Guatemala’s president for the first two decades of the 20th century.
From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2020
In real life, Estrada Cabrera modernized Guatemala by opening it to U.S. capital.
From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2020
As a young man, Asturias saw how Estrada Cabrera ruled Guatemala with ever-increasing doses of cynicism and sadism.
From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2020
The great development of this country is in reality a history of the work of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera, who was president from 1898 to 1920.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
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