| César Duarte Jáquez | |
| Office: | Governor of Chihuahua |
| Term Start: | 4 October 2010 |
| Term End: | 4 October 2016 |
| Predecessor: | José Reyes Baeza Terrazas |
| Successor: | Javier Corral Jurado |
| Office2: | President of the Chamber of Deputies |
| Term Start2: | 1 September 2008 |
| Term End2: | 31 August 2009 |
| Predecessor2: | Ruth Zavaleta Salgado |
| Successor2: | Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña |
| Office3: | Deputy of the Congress of the Union for the 9th district of Chihuahua |
| Term Start3: | 1 September 2006 |
| Term End3: | 31 August 2009 |
| Predecessor3: | Jesús Aguilar Bueno |
| Successor3: | Luis Carlos Campos Villegas |
| Birth Date: | 14 April 1963 |
| Birth Place: | Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua |
| Spouse: | Berta Olga Gomez Fong |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
| Party: | Institutional Revolutionary Party |
César Horacio Duarte Jáquez (born April 14, 1963) is a Mexican politician, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, who has twice been a federal deputy. He was President of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico from 2008 to 2009,[1] while representing Chihuahua's ninth district, and he served as Governor of Chihuahua for the period 2010 to 2016.[2] César Duarte is currently under investigation for corruption and an arrest warrant against him and other close members of his government was issued on March 27, 2017.[3] According to the Financial Times in 2018, he was "believed to be in Texas."[4] He was arrested in Miami in July 2020.[5]
César Duarte Jáquez was born in Hidalgo de Parral, Chihuahua in April 1963. He studied at the Universidad del Valle de México and became a lawyer.[6]
Duarte Jáquez joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1977 and became a municipal and state advisor to PRI. He became general secretary and president of the Hidalgo del Parral Municipality.
He became head of the Confederación Nacional Campesina (National Farmers' Confederation) of Chihuahua and secretary of the organization's executive board.
Duarte Jáquez went on to become an at-large deputy in the Chihuauhua State Legislature (September 1, 2000 – August 31, 2003), deputy from the 9th District (September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2009), and president of the Chamber of Deputies (September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2009). He was Governor of Chihuauhua from October 4, 2010, to October 3, 2016, after which he was accused of peculation of MXN $275 million. He was expelled from PRI in January 2019.
His government investigated the Chihuahua monster truck accident.
Duarte Jáquez is accused of owning 50 different properties possibly acquired with public monies, with a value of US$200 million, in the United States. This is in addition to the 21 pieces of property—ranches, cattle, and machinery worth between MXN $1 billion and $1.2 billion—already seized in Mexico. The total fraud may amount to MXN $6 billion (US$267,500,000).[7]
As of January 21, 2021, Duarte was being held in a prison in Florida. Authorities and politicians (primarily members of) in Chihuahua would like to see him tried locally, particularly in light of accusations by Duarte's former Treasury Secretary, Jaime Herrera, revealed that he was personally responsible for handing out bribes to loyalists.[8]