Enrique Martínez y Martínez explained

Enrique Martinez y Martinez
Office:Ambassador of Mexico to Cuba
Term Start:25 May 2015
President:Enrique Peña Nieto
Predecessor:Juan José Bremer
Office1:Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food
Term Start1:1 December 2012
Term End1:27 August 2015
President1:Enrique Peña Nieto
Predecessor1:Francisco Mayorga Castañeda
Successor1:José Calzada
Order2:25th
Office2:Governor of Coahuila
Term Start2:2 December 1999
Term End2:17 February 2005
Predecessor2:Rogelio Montemayor Seguy
Successor2:Humberto Moreira Valdés
Birth Date:1948 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Saltillo
Spouse:María Guadalupe Morales
Alma Mater:Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Party:Revolutionary Institutional Party

Enrique Martinez y Martinez (born 10 November 1948 in Saltillo) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Revolutionary Institutional Party. He has served as Mexico's Ambassador to Cuba since 2016. He previously served as Governor of Coahuila from 2 December 1999 to 17 February 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]

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  1. News: Enrique Martinez y Martinez, Coahuila . . 11 February 2012 .