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][2][3]

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  1. ^ "Colonel Boris Martinez, the main manager of the 1968 coup" (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  2. ^ Guardia, Mónica (10 March 2019). "La cruzada moral de Boris Martínez" [Boris Martínez's moral crusade]. La Estrella de Panamá (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  3. ^ Guardia, Mónica (16 October 2016). "The mini coup against Boris Martínez, four months later..." La Estrella de Panamá. Retrieved 20 February 2023.