César Duarte Jáquez

César Duarte Jáquez
Governor of Chihuahua
In office
4 October 2010  4 October 2016
Preceded byJosé Reyes Baeza Terrazas
Succeeded byJavier Corral Jurado
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 September 2008  31 August 2009
Preceded byRuth Zavaleta Salgado
Succeeded byFrancisco Javier Ramírez Acuña
Deputy of the Congress of the Union
for the 9th district of Chihuahua
In office
1 September 2006  31 August 2009
Preceded byJesús Aguilar Bueno
Succeeded byLuis Carlos Campos Villegas
Personal details
Born (1963-04-14) 14 April 1963
Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua
Political partyPRI
SpouseBerta Olga Gomez Fong
ProfessionLawyer

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, while representing Chihuahua's ninth district, and he served as governor of Chihuahua for the period 2010 to 2016. 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. According to the Financial Times in 2018, he was "believed to be in Texas". He was arrested in Miami, United States, in July 2020.