Complex sentence: Captain María Esperanza del Alma LaGuerta (or;), known in the books as Migdia LaGuerta, is a fictional character in the Showtime television series "Dexter" and the novels by Jeff Lindsay upon which it is based.
Split into simpler sentences: Captain María Esperanza del Alma LaGuerta (or;), is a fictional character in the Showtime television series "Dexter". The character is known as Migdia LaGuerta in the novels by Jeff Lindsay upon which the television series is based.