His career of a journalist lasted over 70 years (1897–1969), though he is rather known as author of studies on history of Alcarria and as editor of monumental multi-volume series of Juan Vázquez de Mella works.

They initially lived in Molina de Aragón; in 1907 the family moved to Madrid, settling at calle Jesús del Valle in the university quarter.

[35] During the Republic he contributed initially to La Correspondencia Militar, in 1932 emerging as its top comentator,[36] though starting 1933 he switched mostly to El Siglo Futuro, formally entering its editorial board.

[40] He also briefly managed an unidentified periodical named "Lúmen"[41] and collaborated with a number of other titles,[42] above all with El Alcázar,[43] one of key dailies in the Falangist propaganda machinery.

None of the sources consulted claims he headed a section or held jobs in middle management editorial structures; in case of the remaining 30-odd titles he seems to have contributed as a correspondent.

[53] His writings, usually medium-size essays of some 500 words, followed major events; their author aimed to inform the readers about international background of specific developments, their logic and implications.

[54] Most turned out to be quite accurate, like his 1923 prediction that having won the war France found itself isolated and was not in position to safeguard status quo negotiated in Versailles,[55] or his 1932 analysis denouncing European collective security systems as unstable and forecasting the advent of power-based politics.

Before Hitler's ascension to power he noted that his party was "admirably organized on the national basis" and hoped that ruled by the Rightist alliance, Germany would be an example to follow when it comes to confronting "communists, anarchists and those who support them with money, namely the Jews and their branch, the freemasonry".

Always demonstrating respect and esteem for Benito Mussolini,[63] he titled his 1936 commentary on Abyssinian war "Italia tiene su Imperio", the headline with a highly nostalgic tone in Spain;[64] he did not miss the opportunity to declare the British the true losers of the conflict.

Estudio histórico geográfico, monumental 6-volume study which has never been published;[66] its scaled-down versions were La Ciudad de Molina (1952), El Real Señorío Molinés.

Probably in the very early years of the 20th century he wrote La mano de una madre, a drama played at various opportunities at Teatro Calderón in Molina in 1901.

[82] Apart from journalism, Claro served the cause also as an enthusiastic local Carlist activist; in 1896 he was elected president of Juventud Católica in Molina[83] and co-founded La Benéfica Molinesa, a Catholic social fund.

[87] During a Juventud Jaimista homage meeting in a Madrid restaurant in 1911 Abánades first met Juan Vazquez de Mella, the encounter which shaped his political future and theoretical outlook for the rest of his life.

Though during the First World War Jaime III officially backed neutral stance leaning towards the Entente, in 1915 Abánades together with Manuel Abelló and de Mella published El año germanófilo, dubbed "perfect manual of a germanophile", and kept delivering pro-German lectures.

[89] It was de Mella who invited him to join El Correo Español, the official party newspaper that two opposing Carlist factions competed to control.

Though he did not hold any major posts in the newly emergent Mellist organization, Partido Tradicionalista[91] and by historians he is not counted among key Mellistas,[92] he was entrusted with the task of managing the party newspaper, El Pensamiento Español.

Abánades propagated political line of his leader, speaking against taking any official posts,[93] lambasting idea of a right-wing monarchist party[94] and especially voicing mistrust towards some conciliatory gestures made by Alfonso XIII versus Traditionalism.

[99] This boiled down to his political isolation during Primo de Rivera dictatorship; Abánades was active neither in semi-official Carlist structures nor in official primoderiverista institutions.

[105] It is not clear whether Abánades was involved or aware of the forthcoming coup of July 1936; none of the sources consulted provides also any information about his whereabouts during the Civil War and the very first years of Francoism.

A single author claims he joined those Carlists who estranged the intransigent regent-claimant Don Javier and aligned themselves with the partido unico amalgamation line; indeed in 1943 he is noted as paying homage to founders of Falange[106] and involved in the Francoist propaganda, especially El Alcazar.

At that time a young generation of socially minded activists, grouped around prince Carlos Hugo, launched their bid to take control of Carlism.