Boris Martínez
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Boris Néstor Martínez Salazar was a Panamanian military officer of the former National Guard. He spearheaded the 1968 Panamanian coup d'état , which overthrew president-elect Arnulfo Arias Madrid, who had only been in office for eleven days.
A few months after the coup, on 23 February 1969, he was exiled to the United States by Omar Torrijos. He settled in Miami and worked for an aviation company. [1]
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- ^ "Colonel Boris Martinez, the main manager of the 1968 coup" (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 October 2021.
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- Panamanian military commanders
- Panamanian expatriates in the United States