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Mr. President
By Miguel Ángel Asturiascompleted
"Mr. President" is a novel written by the famous Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is one of his most important masterpieces. This book uses Estrada Cabrera, who was in power from 1898 to 1920, as the prototype, using comic exaggeration to create an image of a vulgar, cunning, cruel, and sinister autocratic tyrant. Under his clutches, the entire country was shrouded in an atmosphere of ignorance, poverty, terror, and despair. In many chapt
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