Estrada Cabrera, Manuel

Estrada Cabrera, Manuel

▪ president of Guatemala
born Nov. 21, 1857, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
died Sept. 24, 1924, Guatemala City

      jurist and politician who became dictator and ruled Guatemala from 1898 to 1920 through a standing army, secret police, and systematic oppression.

      After a church-directed education, he practiced law for a time in Guatemala City and was appointed a judge on the Supreme Court. He then entered politics, was elected to the Congress, and served successively as minister of public instruction, of justice, and of the interior. When President José María Reina Barrios was assassinated in 1898, Estrada Cabrera was appointed provisional president and then elected president. He served his first term respecting the constitution but then had it changed in order to ensure his repeated “reelections.”

      Estrada Cabrera's strong rule gave Guatemala internal peace and some economic improvement. He continued the work of his predecessors by attempting to build an oligarchical system based primarily on the export of coffee. In 1901 he hired the United Fruit Company to manage Guatemala's national postal service. Three years later he granted the company a generous concession to construct a railway between Puerto Barrios and Guatemala City. In addition to increasing agricultural production, he built schools and improved sanitation. At the same time, he plundered the treasury, kept the Indians in a state of peonage, and extinguished the few political liberties the Guatemalans had won in previous years. Finally, an armed revolt in 1920 led to his downfall. Stripped of his plundered fortune, he died ignominiously in jail.

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