Silvia Hernández Enríquez (born 12 September 1948) is a Mexican politician affiliated with 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) who served as Secretary of Tourism from December 1994 to December 1997.

Political career

Born in

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, Hernández earned her undergraduate degree in political science and public administration at the

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in 1973 before earning her master's degree in public administration at the

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. Hernández, an active PRI member, has served in different positions within her party. In the early 1990s she was the leader of the PRI's National Confederation of Popular Organizations (CNOP). She has a long career in the

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serving as deputy in the

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of the Congress and serving in the

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three times. In 1994

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appointed her as Secretary of Tourism. In 2002 she served as Chairperson of the Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas. She has unsuccessfully tried to obtain her party's candidacy for the governorship of

Querétaro Querétaro, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro, is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into Municipalities of Querétaro, 18 municipalities. Its capital city is Querétaro Cit ...

References

1948 births Living people Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Secretaries of tourism of Mexico Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Women members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Senators of the LVIII and LIX Legislatures of Mexico 21st-century Mexican women politicians Women secretaries of state of Mexico Women members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Politicians from Querétaro Politicians from Querétaro City National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Alumni of the London School of Economics {{Mexico-deputy-InstitutionalRevolutionary-1940s-stub