Gabino Cué Monteagudo (born February 23, 1966, in

Oaxaca de Juárez Oaxaca de Juárez (), or simply Oaxaca (Valley Zapotec languages, Zapotec: ''Ndua''), is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Administrative divisions of Mexico, Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is the municipal seat for the surrounding munici ...

Oaxaca Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 munici ...

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) is a Mexican

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. He was previously governor of the state of Oaxaca, and the first non- PRI winning candidate in the state in 80 years. He previously ran for governor in 2004, losing to

Ulises Ruiz Ortiz Ulises Ernesto Ruiz Ortiz (born April 9, 1958) is a Mexican politician and former governor of the State of Oaxaca. He took office in 2004 as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Early career In the 1997 mid-term election he ...

, the PRI-candidate and current outgoing state governor. Cue has also served as mayor of the state's capital city, Oaxaca de Juárez, and represented the state as a

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in the

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1966 births Living people Politicians from Oaxaca City Governors of Oaxaca National Action Party (Mexico) politicians Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians Citizens' Movement (Mexico) politicians Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni 21st-century Mexican politicians {{Mexico-senator-NationalAction-stub

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