Juan Dabdouub dies, tireless defender of life and family in Mexico

Juan Dabdoub Giacoman, historical and tireless defender of life and family in Mexico, has died at age 71 this September 11 in Mexico City, after a long fight against cancer.

The Dabdouub González family reports that the Veclation will be held this Friday, September 12, from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Cayoso funeral home, located in Colima Street, Roma Colonia, Mexico City. The present body mass will also be there this Saturday, September 13 in the morning. The time is yet to be confirmed.

“Catholic heart and conviction”, as defined In your social networksDabdoub Giacoman was born on November 30, 1953 in Monterrey, Nuevo León (Mexico), and specialized in marketing and business management.

The “rebel by nature and idealistic by conviction” dedicated the last decades to activism in favor of life and family, and founded the Mexican Council of the Family (Confamilia), an organization with which it promoted a reform so that the Constitution of Mexico officially recognizes marriage as the union between a man and a woman.

The proposal was supported with more than 200,000 Mexican signatures, but was ignored by the Senate.

Dabdoub Giacoman was also part of the founding group of the National Front for the Family, which convened a historic day of demonstrations throughout Mexico on September 10, 2016, in rejection of the attempt of the Federal Executive Power, then headed by Enrique Peña Nieto, to promote equal marriage at the national level.

A few days later, only in Mexico City, more than 400,000 people called, among other Profamilia leaders, by Dabdoub Giacoman.

On that occasion, the founder of Confamilia stressed that “the family is the fundamental cell of society and with that base we made a citizen initiative so that the family is protected by the State.”

“If we manage to send our message and show that there are many people willing to face their face like what is happening now, we will have the opportunity for politicians to turn to society and begin to give the changes that Mexicans need,” he said.

He also criticized “the politicization and ideology of education” in Mexico. In 2023, he denounced that the educational books distributed from the Mexican government contained “ideologized education”: “give a sex education that does not correspond to the State to give it badly and give it perverted,” he told ACI Press.

In his struggle for the defense of life and family, as well as against gender ideology, he organized tours of various parts of the country with personalities such as Agustín Laje and Nicolás Márquez, authors of the Black Book of the New Left.

He has been a speaker at various international events and nations on family issues, panelists in different television programs and guest editorialist, between 1994 and 2012, in various media such as the newspaper The north of the Reforma Group, in addition to being the author of multiple articles and essays on the defense of life and family.

He participated in the UN Population Conference in Cairo (Egypt) in 1994; and in the World Congresses of Families of Geneva (1999) and Mexico (2004).

In 2009 he received the order “José Cecilio del Valle” in the degree of Commander, award granted by the president of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, for his work in favor of democracy.

Dabdouub studied at the Pan American Institute of Senior Business Management (IPADE) in Monterrey; A Master in Marketing in Thunderbird in Glendale (Arizona) and a postgraduate degree in International Trade at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro.

He was a strategic planning professor at the Technological and Higher Studies Institute of Monterrey, Professor of Marketing at the University of Monterrey and a professor at the Institute of Intermediate Management Training, an IPADE subsidiary.

He was the founding president of the World Family and also worked in companies such as Kimberly-Clark Mexico, the Gamesa-Nabisco Group and the Alpha Industrial Group.

In recent years, Dabdoub Giacoman remained firm in his activism Provida and Pro family, while facing hard cancer. After an initial victory, in recent months he experienced a relapse, with a metastasis that extended by his body.

His four children, Juan Pablo, Patricio, Alejandro and Nicole survive; And a granddaughter.