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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">In this <a href="Spanish_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish name">Spanish name</a>, the first or paternal <a href="Surname" title="Surname">surname</a> is <i> Abascal</i> and the second or maternal family name is <i> Carranza</i>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Carlos Abascal</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Abascal in 2003</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="Secretary_of_the_Interior_(Mexico)" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of the Interior (Mexico)">Secretary of the Interior of Mexico</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br>June 1, 2005 – November 30, 2006</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Vicente_Fox" title="Vicente Fox">Vicente Fox</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Santiago_Creel" title="Santiago Creel">Santiago Creel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Francisco_Ram%C3%ADrez_Acu%C3%B1a" title="Francisco Ramírez Acuña">Francisco Ramírez Acuña</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="Secretary_of_Labor_(Mexico)" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of Labor (Mexico)">Secretary of Labor of Mexico</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br>December 1, 2000 – June 1, 2005</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Mariano_Palacios_Alcocer" title="Mariano Palacios Alcocer">Mariano Palacios Alcocer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Francisco_Javier_Salazar" class="mw-redirect" title="Francisco Javier Salazar">Francisco Javier Salazar</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">

</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1949-05-14</span>)</span>May 14, 1949<br><a href="Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>, Mexico</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 2, 2008<span style="display:none">(2008-12-02)</span> (aged 59)<br><a href="Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>, Mexico</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="National_Action_Party_(Mexico)" title="National Action Party (Mexico)">National Action Party</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Escuela_Libre_de_Derecho" title="Escuela Libre de Derecho">Free School of Law</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Lawyer" title="Lawyer">Lawyer</a><br> <a href="Politician" title="Politician">Politician</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b>Carlos María Abascal Carranza</b> (<a href="Ciudad_de_Mexico" class="mw-redirect" title="Ciudad de Mexico">Ciudad de Mexico</a> June 14, 1949 – Ciudad de Mexico December 2, 2008), known as Carlos Abascal, was a Mexican lawyer, business leader, and <a href="Politician" title="Politician">politician</a>. He was the <a href="Secretary_of_the_Interior_(Mexico)" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of the Interior (Mexico)">Secretary of the Interior</a> in the cabinet of <a href="Vicente_Fox" title="Vicente Fox">Vicente Fox</a>. He is the son of the writer <a href="Salvador_Abascal" title="Salvador Abascal">Salvador Abascal</a>, famous for his <a href="Synarchist" class="mw-redirect" title="Synarchist">synarchist</a> ideas.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div>

<p>Abascal studied <a href="Law" title="Law">law</a> at <a href="Escuela_Libre_de_Derecho" title="Escuela Libre de Derecho">Escuela Libre de Derecho</a> in <a href="Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>, graduating in 1973 with a thesis entitled "Relations between Spiritual Power and Temporal Power", in which he stated, that "democracy is a farce that has been used by Freemasons in Mexico...to make a confused and disoriented majority believe that its will is being done".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later pursued <a href="Business_management" class="mw-redirect" title="Business management">business management</a> studies at the <a href="IPADE" class="mw-redirect" title="IPADE">IPADE</a>.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography_and_Career">Biography and Career</h2></div>

<p>Abascal began his career as a messenger for Afianzadora Insurgentes and became a trainee in the legal area. He later became Director and <a href="Chief_Executive_Officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Executive Officer">CEO</a>. He worked for Afianzadora Insurgentes for thirty years before retiring in August 2000.

</p><p>Abascal has occupied different positions in private and social organizations. He has been president of the Fundación para el Desarrollo Sostenible en México (FUNDES), president of Vertebra, president of the Movimiento Social y de Administración de Valores (AVAL), vice president of the Instituto Mexicano de Doctrina Social Cristiana (IMDOSOC), and national president of the <a href="Coparmex" title="Coparmex">Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana</a> (COPARMEX). As president, he promoted the New Labor Culture and facilitated dialogue between the employer and worker sectors.<sup id="cite_ref-Foundacion_Carlos_Abascal_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foundacion_Carlos_Abascal-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Abascal served in the <a href="Legislative_Assembly_of_the_Federal_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Legislative Assembly of the Federal District">Legislative Assembly of the Federal District</a> from 1994 to 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also participated in the transition team of <a href="President_of_Mexico" title="President of Mexico">President</a> <a href="Vicente_Fox" title="Vicente Fox">Vicente Fox</a>. He became one of the key cabinet members in Fox's administration. He served as the head of the Ministry of Labor and later the Ministry of the Interior. His primary challenge in the latter role was maintaining the country's governability during the 2006 electoral process. In 2000 Fox appointed Abascal as <a href="Secretary_of_Labor_(Mexico)" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of Labor (Mexico)">Secretary of Labor</a>. In 2005, following <a href="Santiago_Creel" title="Santiago Creel">Santiago Creel</a>'s resignation, Abascal was appointed <a href="Secretary_of_the_Interior_(Mexico)" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of the Interior (Mexico)">Secretary of the Interior</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>He was opposed to some birth control methods such as abortion and the contraceptive pill.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He spoke out against "liberal" literature, including the novel <i><a href="Aura_(Fuentes)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aura (Fuentes)">Aura</a></i> by <a href="Carlos_Fuentes" title="Carlos Fuentes">Carlos Fuentes</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which Abascal alleged was inappropriate for his 13-year-old daughter and requested that her private school reconsider including in its curriculum.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In the later years of his life, he was involved with the National Executive Committee of the National Action Party (PAN) and led the Rafael Preciado Hernández Foundation. Days before his death, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Universidad Anáhuac, marking his final public appearance.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3></div>

<p>Abascal died of esophageal cancer on the morning of December 2, 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>In 2009, various Catholic organizations asked the <a href="Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Mexico" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico</a> to begin the process for the canonization of Abascal given his virtues and his ability to participate in politics without renouncing his Catholic values.

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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/07/21/039n1soc.php">Jornada</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070207074835/http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/07/21/039n1soc.php">Archived</a> February 7, 2007, at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span>

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</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131219094229/http://fundacioncarlosabascal.org.mx/general/202-el-trabajo-es-para-las-personas-y-no-las-personas-para-el-trabajo">"Work is for people and not people for work"</a>. <i>Foundacion Carlos Abascal</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fundacioncarlosabascal.org.mx/general/202-el-trabajo-es-para-las-personas-y-no-las-personas-para-el-trabajo">the original</a> on 19 December 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 June</span> 2024</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFCamp2011" class="citation book cs1"><a href="Roderic_Ai_Camp" title="Roderic Ai Camp">Camp, Roderic Ai</a> (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=96xOHRWNMioC"><i>Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009: Fourth Edition</i></a>. <a href="University_of_Texas_Press" title="University of Texas Press">University of Texas Press</a>. p. 1. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>9780292726345</bdi>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">President Vicente Fox names Carlos Abascal Carranza to Replace Santiago Creel at interior secretariat, findarticles entry <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb288/is_200506/ai_n15091707">here</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,486073,00.html">The Latin master</a> The Guardian, May 5, 2001</span>

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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFJimenez2008" class="citation news cs1">Jimenez, Horacio (2 December 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/559811.html">"Fallece Carlos Abascal"</a>. El Universal<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 January</span> 2022</span>.</cite></span>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fox.presidencia.gob.mx/en/cabinet/?contenido=18716">Profile at Mexico's Presidency of the Republic site</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070710053254/http://fox.presidencia.gob.mx/en/cabinet/?contenido=18716">Archived</a> 2007-07-10 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul>

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