Addy Cecilia Joaquín Coldwell (born 24 August 1939) is a Mexican politician from

Cozumel Cozumel (; ) is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen. It is separated from the mainland by the Cozumel Channel and is close to the Yucatán Channel. The ...

Quintana Roo Quintana Roo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 administrative divisions of Mexico, federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into municipalities of ...

. Her brother Pedro Joaquín Coldwell is a former

Governor of Quintana Roo The governors of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, since statehood. Governors of the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo since 1975 *Note: In 2001 Mario E. Villanueva was sentenced to prison due to corruption involving drugs, Mexican dr ...

. During her brother's governorship she served as president of the DIF ''(Desarrollo Integral de la Familia)'' in Quintana Roo, then when her husband Edmundo Fernández was the mayor of

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(the

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that includes the resort city of

Cancún Cancún is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located in southeast Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is a significant tourist destination in Mexico and the seat of the municipality of Benito J ...

), she served as municipal first lady and president of the DIF. Joaquín Coldwell is a former member of the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...

(PRI). She has served in the

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(representing Quintana Roo's First District from 1997 to 2000) and in the

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. In 1998 she tried to obtain her party's candidacy to the governorship of Quintana Roo for the 1999 elections but lost against

Joaquín Ernesto Hendricks Díaz Joaquín or Joaquin is a male given name, the Spanish version of Joachim. Given name * Joaquín (footballer, born 1956) (Joaquín Alonso González), Spanish football midfielder * Joaquín (footballer, born 1981) (Joaquín Sánchez Rodríguez), ...

. In 2004 after losing again the PRI candidacy for the 2005 elections she broke with the PRI and ran for the governorship as the candidate of the National Action Party (PAN) and

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. She lost to the PRI candidate

Félix González Canto Félix Arturo González Canto (born 23 August 1968) is a Mexican politician and economist, affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). From 2005 until 2011 he was the governor of the state of Quintana Roo. He has previously hel ...

. In the

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of 2 July 2006, she was elected to the

for the PAN, representing the Third Circumscription via

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