Roberto Palazuelos-Badeaux He defines himself first as an actor, then as an entrepreneur, and it should also be noted that he has a law degree. A native of Quintana Roo, Mexico, he seeks to be a candidate for the presidency of the country.
The official candidacy will have to wait until February 14, when the official candidate of the ‘orange party’ will be announced, called Movimiento Ciudadano – Movimiento Naranja, which is defined as “the vehicle for free and exemplary citizens to access to the spaces where public decisions are made”.
The Mexican Citizens
They are a party that would be located in the center left, the same political rank as the party led by Albert Rivera in its beginnings; they also use the orange tone as a distinctive. In addition, the Spanish party also started out calling itself ‘Movimiento Ciudadano’.
Palazuelos resides in Quintana Roo, and today the pre-campaigns for the candidacy for governor of this town begin there, which will conclude on February 10. “Movimiento Ciudadano” is still a minority political party in Mexico, it would be the sixth in the Chamber of Deputies), who hope to go to the federal elections next July with a chance of winning.
“Citizen Movement” has a social democratic ideology. He won 20 seats in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies in the last federal elections. And they want more. Its logo is an eagle in flight holding a snake in its beak.
Your way of communicating
Today, Sunday, he has just published his first video on YouTube, just 12 hours ago, where he told how he found out that he would be a father in Miami. And it is that Palazuelos is a born communicator. Whatever and whatever.
When he agreed to be the visible face of the Orange Movement, he stated that “the party does not nominate politicians, but citizens”, emphasizing that seeks to renew the political class of the state.
Why do they call it the Black Diamond?
Roberto Palazuelos is one of the great personalities of the world of entertainment in Mexico; He is a close friend of Luis Miguiel, an important businessman, and is considered one of the great ‘mirreyes’ of all time.
It is known as “Black Diamond”, and has a series on Netflix where he exposes some aspects of his life, his large real estate properties all over the world (up to 7). He told the origin of his name when he participated in the country’s “Big Brother” program. There he explained that he was named after his hotel in Acapulco, which is called Diamante, and a program partner, Omar Chaparro, began to sing a song where he called him Diamante Negro, and the nickname stayed there. Right now he owns four hotels in the Riviera Maya.
His acting career
Palazuelos was born on January 31, 1967 in Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero. The only child of a Mexican and a French woman, although he has five half-siblings. His career as an actor has made him go through telenovelas like ‘My second mother’, ‘Simply María’, and success came with the character of ‘Roger’, in ‘Muchachitas’, a telenovela where he swept the younger audience. He also appeared in telenovelas such as ‘Dos mujeres, un camino’, ‘Pobre rica Niña’, ‘For a lifetime’, ‘Amada enemiga’, ‘Amor gitano’, ‘Carita de Ángel’, ‘Salomé’…
This show business man, because beyond being an actor, he knows the system and is very well connected, became the image of Pepsi in Mexico in February 2013. As a child he did not study, but he completed his middle school and high school certificate at 41 years; four years later he entered as a law graduate of the TEC Milenio University, at the Cancun Campus.
In October 2019, Roberto Palazuelos debuted as his own character in a reality show on the television channel MTV (Latin America), where his daily life was seen. On October 15, 2020, he received a honorary doctorate for his artistic career. Palazuelos also wrote a book on how to be successful in life, entitled alchemy for success, book that was released on the TV show.
He has participated in 8 films and in more than 20 soap operas.
family of politicians
Neither business, nor politics, nor the entertainment world is alien to him. Three world that blends without blush. His grandfather, Roberto Palazuelos Bassols, better known as El Tigre, was a Magistrate and Acting President of the Court of Justice. He was murdered in 1971 when the actor was just four years old.
During his adolescence, the actor lived and became friends with the children of more than a few presidents of the Republic, so it was very common to see him walk around the former Los Pinos presidential residence. Since 2018 it has been converted into a museum; the current presidential house is the National Palace.
During years He has confessed that in his youth he had all the privileges for being friends with the children of the presidents, something he has always boasted about. He is divorced and has a son.
