How to pronounce “manuel estrada cabrera” in English

I won’t spoil the end of “El Señor Presidente” for you, but suffice it to say that Asturias has a message to get across about loyalty and power in theface of tyrants. And while some argue that the President might be modeled on Guatemalan leader Manuel Estrada Cabrera — allegedly! allegedly! —other scholars say the decision to write about an unnamed dictator in an unnamed country tells us something else: That the novel is less interested in recounting the story of one historical figure,