Enrique Martínez y Martínez

Enrique Martinez y Martinez
Secretary of Agriculture
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 December 2012
President	Enrique Peña Nieto
Preceded by	Francisco Mayorga Castañeda
25th Governor of Coahuila
In office 2 December 1999 – 2 December 2005
Preceded by	Rogelio Montemayor Seguy
Succeeded by	Humberto Moreira Valdés
Personal details
Born	(1948-11-10) 10 November 1948 Saltillo
Political party	Revolutionary Institutional Party
Spouse(s)	María Guadalupe Morales
Alma mater	Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

Enrique Martinez y Martinez (born 10 November 1948 in Saltillo) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Revolutionary Institutional Party. He served as governor of Coahuila from 2 December 1999 to 1 December 2005.

Martínez y Martínez received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies. After graduation he taught several courses in economics at the Autonomous University of Coahuila and at the Antonio Narro Autonomous Agricultural University (in Spanish: Universidad Autonoma Agraria Antonio Narro).

He joined the private sector as president of Grupo Empresarial Martínez, started his political career as municipal president of Saltillo (1979–81) and has been elected twice to the Chamber of Deputies: 1988–91, representing Coahuila's First District, and 1997–99, representing its Seventh District.

In 1999, as the PRI candidate for governor, he defeated a coalition of four parties with 60% of the vote and started serving as governor of Coahuila on 1 December; his term expired on 1 December 2005, and he was succeeded by Humberto Moreira Valdés.

During the early months of 2005 Martínez tried unsuccessfully to secure his party nomination for the 2006 presidential election.

He is married to María Guadalupe Morales and has two sons and a daughter: Enrique, Eduardo and Ana Sofía.^[1]

References

External links

• Government of Coahuila: Enrique Martínez