Antonio Jáquez Bermúdez (June 13, 1892 – February 10, 1977) was a Mexican businessman and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
[1] During the Mexican Revolution, he moved to Ciudad Juárez,[2] which had grown rapidly and gained a new strategic and economic importance during the war.
[4] Mingling with the sons of prominent government officials and prominent regional political and commercial figures, he developed strong connections as he established himself as a future businessman, leaving for Los Angeles for a short period in order to attend Los Angeles Business College.
[7] He soon enough had expanded to construction and amassed a veritable fortune, becoming one of the dominant actors in the city’s economy and running the Ciudad Juárez National Chamber of Commerce from 1927 to 1929, which was his first foray into public office.
He described the work of constructing Ciudad Pemex, a development in Tabasco oriented towards the petroleum industry as “a gigantic effort by Mexican society to overcome by technical means the wanton blind forces of nature in order to build a world capable of giving satisfaction to the highest needs of man.”[11] In this period he was precandidate for the PRI nomination for Presidency and afterwards he served for three years as Mexican ambassador in the Middle East, returning only in 1961 to serve in the final public position of his life, director of the National Border Program (PRONAF).