# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-baldizon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:04:09.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-baldizon"
name: "Manuel Baldizón"
slug: "manuel-baldizon"
description: "Manuel Antonio Baldizón Méndez is a Guatemalan politician, lawyer, and hotel entrepreneur. He was the leader of the \"Libertad Democrática Renovada\" (LIDER) Renewed Democratic Liberty party and was a candidate in the 2015 presidential election placing third and losing to Jimmy Morales. He was also a candidate in the 2011 presidential election, placing second and losing to Otto Pérez Molina in a run-off vote. On January 20, 2018, he was captured in the United States, when he was accused of accepting bribes from Odebrecht."
tagline: "Guatemalan politician, lawyer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Manuel_Baldiz%C3%B3n_2015_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1970-05-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.84
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           6.551225333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ManuelBaldizon"
    handle:    "ManuelBaldizon"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/ManuelBaldizonMendez"
    handle:    "ManuelBaldizonMendez"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.baldizon.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Бальдисон, Мануэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مانويل بالديزون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Baldiz%C3%B3n"
    title: "Manuel Baldizón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Baldiz%C3%B3n"
    title: "Manuel Baldizón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Baldiz%C3%B3n"
    title: "Manuel Baldizón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Baldiz%C3%B3n"
    title: "Manuel Baldizón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Baldiz%C3%B3n"
    title: "Manuel Baldizón"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1891440"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump