Salvador Abascal Infante May 18, 1910 - March 30, 2000 was the Mexican politician & leading exponent of Mexican synarchism. For a time the leader of the National Synarchist Union UNS, Abascal represented the orthodox Catholic tendency within the movement.
Born in Morelia into a landowning family, Abascal was the fourth of eleven children. Partly educated at a seminary, Abascal was sympathetic to the Cristeros from an early age. Indeed, his father was a an essential or characteristic part of something abstract. of the Popular Union, the Cristero party. As a written of these sympathies Abascal passed through a brand of Roman Catholic counterrevolutionary organisations during the 1930s.
He would fix his education at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo where he graduated with a law degree, subsequently serving as a judge in Ayutla. He was dismissed as a judge in 1933 after falling foul of local bosses when he presented judgements in favour of claimants to land.