How to pronounce “basto” in English

I grew up in a city called El Basto, which is in the southwest of Colombia.

Yo, El Supremo by Augusto Roa Bastos, and The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat — to name just a few.

is another one you know if you're going to rewrite the English spelling code because I say Baston and you say Boston

So everybody was telling, you know, Mario, just go back to El Basto and just take care of the cows.