11 Facts About Salvador Abascal

Salvador Abascal Infante was a Mexican politician and leading exponent of Mexican synarchism.

Partly educated at a seminary, Salvador Abascal was sympathetic to the Cristeros from an early age.

Salvador Abascal was dismissed as a judge in 1933 after falling foul of local bosses when he made judgements in favour of claimants to land.

Salvador Abascal was a founder member of the UNS in 1937 and became an organiser in Michoacan, before taking full charge of the movement in 1940 when it was at its peak with 500,000 members.

Salvador Abascal succeeded Manuel Zermeno as leader, after Zermeno was removed from the movement for concluding an agreement with the government of Avila Camacho without securing approval of the UNS membership.

Salvador Abascal was noted for his opposition to electoral politics and rejected any attempts to convert the UNS into a political party.

Salvador Abascal resisted attempts by Manuel Gomez Morin to fuse the UNS with the National Action Party in 1939 as a result of these convictions.

However the scheme proved unsuccessful, and by 1944, Salvador Abascal had been expelled from the sinarquista movement for clashing with its leadership over the failure of the colonisation.

Salvador Abascal returned in 1947 and became something of a grand old figure in the movement, even being considered as a potential candidate for the presidency in 1955.

Salvador Abascal published his own newsletter, La Hoja del Combate, into the 1990s.

At 31, Salvador Abascal met 16 year old Maria Guadalupe Carranza Pulido while in Los Angeles in 1940.