[1] 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.

[1] 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.

[1] After a brief return to INFONAVIT in 2002 and 2003, Yunes Landa was tapped to become the deputy secretary of government of Veracruz, a position he held for most of the time between 2003 and 2007.

[1] In January 2016, Yunes Landa resigned from the Senate and was replaced by Erika Ayala Ríos, as he launched a bid for governor of Veracruz.

His primary opposition was his first cousin, Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, who had previously left the PRI and who ran under a PAN-PRD banner.