Joaquín Ernesto Hendricks Díaz (born 7 November 1951 in

Chetumal Chetumal (, , ; yua, label=Yucatec Maya, Chactemàal , ) is a city on the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It is the capital of the state of Quintana Roo and the municipal seat of the Municipality of Othón P. Blanco. In 2020 i ...

Quintana Roo Quintana Roo ( , ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 11 mu ...

) is a Mexican politician belonging to the

Partido Revolucionario Institucional The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the Nati ...

. From 1991 to 1994, he held a seat in the

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, representing Quintana Roo's First District. Between 1999 and 2005 he served as

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of the

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1951 births Living people Politicians from Quintana Roo People from Chetumal, Quintana Roo Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Governors of Quintana Roo Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) 20th-century Mexican politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians {{Mexico-deputy-InstitutionalRevolutionary-1950s-stub