Ricardo Canavati Tafich

Jesús Ricardo Canavati Tafich (born 8 October 1943) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He currently serves in the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress as an Ecologist Green Party of Mexico proportional representation deputy.

Political career Canavati's political career started in the late 1960s in the Mexico City Metro, where he was an administrative assistant, deputy director general, and comptroller. He then transferred to the Department of the Federal District, where he spent a year as the coordinator of the Directorate of Information and Statistical Analysis.

In 1973, his political career moved to his hometown of Monterrey. He was the town's general comptroller; a year later, he became the director general of the Trust for the Metropolitan Fund of Monterrey (FOMERREY). He serves on three commissions—Economy, Finances and Public Credit, and Justice— and additionally was the vice president of the Mesa de Decanos, indicating that his previous tenure was the second longest of all of the deputies of the LXIII Legislature.

Personal Canavati Tafich is married to Elena Hadjópulos, with whom he has had four children: Elenitza, Jesús, Ricardo and Eugenio.