Career
Since 2011 he has been in opposition to the government of Ricardo Martinelli, and in 2013 was chosen as the Panameñista Party candidate for Mayor of Panama City, winning the party primary election with 97% of the vote. The son of José Isabel Blandón Castillo, his disapproval of his father"s position as a top aide to Manuel Noriega helped push his father to defecting in the late 1980s.