Carlos Flores Dueñas

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Carlos Flores Dueñas is a Mexican politician of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who served as the interim governor of Colima in 2003. Both before and since serving as governor, he has also served as the state's Secretary of Education.

Carlos Flores graduated from the Centro Regional de Educación Normal in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco and went on to earn a Master of Education degree from the University of Colima. He has held a number of political posts, both in the state government and within the PRI, including his present position as Secretary of Education, which began during the governorship of Fernando Moreno Peña. When Governor Moreno's term ended, the election results were annulled by the Federal Electoral Tribunal as a result of accusations that the governor had used his office to give excessive aid to the winner, PRI candidate Gustavo Vázquez Montes. Carlos Flores was then named interim governor, and during his brief two-month tenure, new elections were held. Gustavo Vázquez prevailed a second time, and upon leaving the governorship, Carlos Flores returned to his old post as the state's Secretary of Education, which he continues to hold to this day.