Catholic Church and believed that wealth created a social obligation. He believed in democracy, in the social economy of the market, respecting the dignity of the individual, in solidarity and in subsidiarity.” In his free time, he liked sports, singing, and playing poker and dominos. Clouthier died on October 1, 1989, in a car accident on the Mexico City-Nogales highway (KM158+100) in Culiacan, while on the way to a rally for a PAN candidate for mayor of Mazatlán. The car crashed with a truck loaded with fruit. Both occupants of Clouthier's car died instantly. The truck driver survived. There were rumors that it was not an accident, with several farmworkers reporting a helicopter in the area. The family asked for an investigation to clarify what happened in the accident. Thousands of people attended Clouthier's funeral at the Culiacán cathedral including Dionisio Garza Sada, Mauricio Fernández Garza, Concepción Guadalupe Garza, Ingrid Fiehn, Fernando Canales, Raúl Monter, Alberto Fernández Ruiloba, Javier Livas, Rafael Rangel Sostmann, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Luis H. Álvarez, Elías Villegas, Vicente Fox and Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios. Clouthier is buried at the Jardines del Humaya cemetery. His widow, Leticia Carrillo Cázarez, died in December 2017 at age 84. Children, Rebeca, Tatiana and Manuel have since gone into politics, initially in his PAN party, and then Manuel went on to becoming the first Independent congressman. He will contend independently for Governor of his home Sinaloa State. Tatiana is currently economy secretary by Morena, Rebeca recently quit the party after contending for Mayor of San Pedro Garza García, NL. Agro-industry career After graduating from Monterrey Tech, he worked for a time with Paul Williams in Mexicali. He then returned to Culiacán, where his father gave him seventy hectares of land to farm. Here he grew tomatoes, chili peppers, cucumbers and rice. Clouthier was successful with this, increasing his land holdings to 270 hectares and starting fourteen businesses in agroindustry. Political career before presidential run His success in business prompted his entry into politics. In 1969, he was elected president of the, Asociación de Agricultores del Río Culiacán. In 1971, he became the head of the Unión Nacional de Productores de Hortalizas. That same year, he founded the Comité de Caminos Vecinales and joined the Movimiento Familiar Cristiano. In 1971, he was nominated as a PRI candidate to become the municipal president of Culiacán, but another candidate was chosen to run.