Miguel Borge Martín
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Miguel Borge Martín (born 30 October 1943 in
Cozumel Cozumel (; ) is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen. It is separated from the mainland by the Cozumel Channel and is close to the Yucatán Channel. The ...
,
Quintana Roo Quintana Roo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 administrative divisions of Mexico, federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into municipalities of ...
) is a Mexican politician member of the
Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...
(PRI). Between 1987 and 1993 he served as
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of the
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of
Quintana Roo Quintana Roo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 administrative divisions of Mexico, federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into municipalities of ...
. Prior to his election as governor, he held a seat in the
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, representing his home state. His term in office was notable for the devastating landfall of
Hurricane Gilbert Hurricane Gilbert was the second most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Atlantic basin in terms of barometric pressure, only behind Hurricane Wilma in 2005. An extremely powerful tropical cyclone that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurri ...
on the Quintana Roo coast on 14 September 1988.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Borge Martin, Miguel 1943 births Politicians from Quintana Roo Governors of Quintana Roo Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) People from Cozumel Living people 20th-century Mexican politicians Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians