Addy Cecilia Joaquín Coldwell (born 24 August 1939) is a Mexican politician from

Cozumel Cozumel (; yua, Kùutsmil) is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen. It is separated from the mainland by the Cozumel Channel and is close to the Yucatán ...

Quintana Roo Quintana Roo ( , ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 11 mu ...

. Her brother

Pedro Joaquín Coldwell Pedro Joaquín Coldwell (born August 5, 1950 in Cozumel, Quintana Roo) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Personal life and education Joaquín Coldwell studied law at the Universidad Ibero ...

is a former

Governor of Quintana Roo The governors of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, since statehood. Governors of the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo since 1975 *Note: In 2001 Mario E. Villanueva was sentenced to prison due to corruption involving Mexican drug wa ...

. During her brother's governorship she served as president of the DIF ''(Desarrollo Integral de la Familia)'' in Quintana Roo, then when her husband Edmundo Fernández was the mayor of

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(the

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that includes the resort city of

Cancún Cancún ( ), often Cancun in English (without the accent; or ) is a city in southeast Mexico on the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It is a significant tourist destination in Mexico and the seat ...

), she served as municipal first lady and president of the DIF. Joaquín Coldwell is a former member of the

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(PRI). She has served in the

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(representing Quintana Roo's First District from 1997 to 2000) and in the

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. In 1998 she tried to obtain her party's candidacy to the governorship of Quintana Roo for the 1999 elections but lost against Joaquín Ernesto Hendricks Díaz. In 2004 after losing again the PRI candidacy for the 2005 elections she broke with the PRI and ran for the governorship as the candidate of the National Action Party (PAN) and

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. She lost to the PRI candidate

Félix González Canto Félix Arturo González Canto (born 23 August 1968) is a Mexican politician and economist, affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). From 2005 until 2011 he was the governor of the state of Quintana Roo. He has previously h ...

. In the

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of 2 July 2006, she was elected to the

for the PAN, representing the Third Circumscription via

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