page_title: Manuel Estrada Cabrera
section_title: Second term (1905–1911)
hierarchical_section_title: Manuel Estrada Cabrera / Second term (1905–1911)
caption_attribution_description: Español: Invitación a participar en el baile de celebración de la reelección de Manuel Estrada Cabrera en 1904.
context_page_description: Manuel José Estrada Cabrera was President of Guatemala from 1898 to 1920. He was a lawyer with no military background and as President, he was a strong ruler, who modernised the country's industry and transport, but only by granting concessions to the American-owned United Fruit Company, whose influence on the government was felt by many to be excessive. Estrada Cabrera used increasingly brutal methods to assert his authority, including armed strike-breaking, and the general elections were effectively controlled by him. He retained power for 22 years through controlled elections in 1904, 1910, and 1916, and was eventually removed from office when the national assembly declared him mentally incompetent, and he was jailed for corruption.
context_section_description: Presidential elections were held on August 7, 1904 and Estrada Cabrera was again the winner. In December 1908 there was a measles epidemic all over the country, but it was efficiently controlled by the doctors of his regime.
  Cabinet members:
  Infrastructure Secretary: Joaquín Méndez
  War Secretary: Luis Molina
  Secretary of Foreign Relations: Juan Barrios M.
  Secretary of the Interior: José María Reina Andrade
  Secretary of Education: Angel M. Bocanegra
  National Assembly:
  President: Arturo Ubico Urruela
  Secretary: José A. Beteta
  Secretary: Francisco C. Castañeda
  Cotzumalguapa representative: Carlos Herrera
  Flores, Petén representative: Adrián Vidaurre, who would also serve as War Auditor.
  United States Ambassadors:
  Joseph W. J. Lee (19 March 1907 – 17 January 1908)
  General George W. Davis (17 January 1908 – 9 October 1909)
  Willam F. Sands (9 October 1909 – 1 October 1910)
  Robert Stockton Renolds Hitt (1 October 1910 – 1911)
caption: Invitation to the celebration of Estrada Cabrera 1904 reelection in Chiquimula.
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