Silvia Hernández Enríquez

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Silvia Hernández Enríquez (b. 1948) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as Secretary of Tourism from December 1994 to December 1997.

[edit] Political career

Hernández, an active PRI member, has served in different positions within her party. In the earlies 1990s she was the leader of the PRI's National Confederation of Popular Organizations (CNOP).

She has a long career in the Mexican Congress serving as deputy in the lower house of the Congress and serving in the Mexican Senate three times. In 1994 President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León appointed her as Secretary of Tourism. In 2002 she served as Chairperson of the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas.

She has unsuccessfully tried to obtain her party's candidacy to the governorship of Querétaro.

Preceded by Jesús Silva Herzog

Secretary of Tourism 1994–1997

Succeeded by Oscar Espinosa Villarreal