Eugenio Javier Hernández Flores (born October 17, 1959) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

He was the mayor of Ciudad Victoria from 2001 to 2004 and governor of Tamaulipas from 2004 to 2010, and was also a federal deputy in 2000 and coordinator of the Financial Committee of Tomás Yarrington during his campaign.

On May 27, 2015, he was indicted on charges of money laundering alongside his brother-in-law Oscar Gomez Guerra by the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ).

[1] Born in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, he is the fourth child of Eugenio Hernández Balboa and Susana Flores Fernández.

[9] He expressed his agreement to make a public ballot question to put on people's consideration the possibility to impose the capital punishment as penalty for kidnapping and to stop the violence from crime.

[10] With respect to relations with the US states bordering Tamaulipas, Hernández Flores was a principal critic of the immigration laws applied in Texas.

Thus, when PetroleosMexicanos company announced that another refinery was going to be built in Mexico, Hernández Flores proposed that it be sited at Tamaulipas.