Hinojosa finally decided to opt for another right-wing organization. José María Lamamié de Clairac, a landholder and a friend of his father, was at the time combining syndicate activity in agrarian groupings with political engagement in Carlism; it was him who convinced Hinojosa to follow suit. Since January 1932 he was taking part in gatherings; in July 1932 he was already recorded delivering a lecture which hailed Catholic virtues of patriotic women, who bravely confronted renegade liberalism, and in early August he organized Carlist meetings in Málaga himself. He resigned the juez municipal post. Gaining recognition in nationwide Traditionalist press Hinojosa was getting identified as a belligerent "derechista” by the authorities; though he had nothing to do with Sanjurjada, in its aftermath he was detained and spent 2 weeks in a local prison, locked up with other Andalusian Carlists genuinely involved in the coup. The experience has only exacerbated his militancy.