César Horacio Duarte Jáquez

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. 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.

Personal life and education César Duarte Jáquez was born in Hidalgo de Parral, Chihuahua, in April 1963. He studied at the Universidad del Valle de México and became a lawyer.

Career Duarte Jáquez joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1977 and became a municipal and state advisor to PRI. He became general secretary and president of the municipality of Hidalgo del Parral.

As of January 21, 2021, Duarte was being held in a prison in the U.S. state of Florida. Authorities and politicians (primarily members of the National Action Party in Chihuahua) would like to see him tried locally, particularly in light of accusations by Duarte's former Treasury Secretary, Jaime Herrera, revealed that he was personally responsible for handing out bribes to PRI loyalists.