Héctor Yunes Landa
Héctor Yunes Landa (born 27 September 1958) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. From 2012 to 2016, he represented Veracruz as a senator in the LXII and LXIII Legislatures of the Mexican Congress. He also served as Deputy from 1985 to 1988 in the LIII Legislature. Life Yunes graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana in 1982 with a degree in law, though his political career had begun as early as 1977, when he joined the PRI. In 1979, he founded and presided over the State Executive Committee of FIREV – the Veracruz Student Independent Defensive Front. He left that position two years later to become the secretary general of the state National Revolutionary Youth Movement; from 1982 to 1989, he was the national secretary general of the Revolutionary Popular Youth organization. Simultaneously, between 1985 and 1988, Yunes Landa served as a federal deputy for the first time, in the LIII Legislature; he sat on committees dealing with the Navy, Fishing, Environment, Ecology, Border Matters, Justice, and Information, Administration and Complaints. In 1988, Yunes Landa briefly served as an advisor to the Secretary of Fisheries, but he then went to study at the University of Warwick in England, even presiding