Humberto Roque Villanueva (born 16 November 1943) is a Mexican

Mexican people

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 politician affiliated with the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
He is a native of Torreón

Torreón

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, Coahuila

Coahuila

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He has served as the president of the PRI

President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party

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, a senator for Coahuila, and in the federal Chamber of Deputies, representing Coahuila's Sixth District

Sixth Federal Electoral District of Coahuila

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 from 1988 to 1991.

He fought the PRI's presidential primary in 1999, seeking his party's nomination for the 2000 presidential election, but lost to Francisco Labastida Ochoa.