El Boricuazo
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{{Infobox person
| birth_name = Jesús Omar Rivera Dávila
| name = El Boricuazo
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|01|16}}
| birth_place = San Juan, Puerto Rico
| known_for = Knowledge of Puerto Rico
| occupation = Writer, public speaker, tourist guide
| mother = Blanca Dávila Rodríguez
| father = Aníbal Rivera
| website = {{URL|www.boricuazopr.com}}
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Jesús Omar Rivera Dávila (born January 16, 1962), better known as El Boricuazo, is a Puerto Rican media personality, writer, tour guide, college instructor, and public speaker from Bayamón.{{cite interview |url=http://www.prpop.org/noticias/sept08/el_boricuazo_sept19.shtml |first=Jesús |last=Rivera |interviewer=Miguel López Ortiz |title='El Boricuazo' ante el impacto de su libro |date=September 19, 2008 |language=Spanish |trans-title=‘El Boricuazo’ before the impact of his book |publisher=National Foundation for Popular Culture }}{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/boricuazo-puerto-rican-pride-jesus-omar-rivera_n_2216303.html |title=Puerto Rican Pride: Meet Jesus Omar Rivera, The Island's History Detective And Cultural Defender (SLIDESHOW) |newspaper=The Huffington Post |department=Latino Voices |first=Zuania |last=Ramos |date=November 30, 2012}}{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/puerto-rican-question-el-boricuazo-article-1.291777 |title=Have a Puerto Rican question? Ask El Boricuazo |first=Carlos |last=Rodríguez Martorell |date=June 3, 2008 |newspaper=New York Daily News }}{{cite news |title=¡Regresa "El boricuazo"! |language=Spanish |first=Milly |last=Cangiano |date=November 12, 2013 |url=http://www.primerahora.com/entretenimiento/columna/millie-cangiano/columnas/regresaelboricuazo-975743/ |newspaper=Primera Hora }}{{cite news|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/Xstatic/endi/template/imprimir.aspx?id=563039&t=3 |title=Revelará el gran secreto en Mayagüez |date=April 30, 2009 |language=Spanish |newspaper=El Nuevo Día |accessdate=January 15, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116143315/http://www.elnuevodia.com/Xstatic/endi/template/imprimir.aspx?id=563039&t=3 |archivedate=2014-01-16 }} Rivera is known for his appearances on Puerto Rican television and radio, where he offers stories, facts, and trivia about Puerto Rico that are not well known to the general public.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}
Early life
Jesús Omar Rivera Dávila was born in 1962, in San Juan, Puerto Rico to Aníbal Rivera and Blanca Dávila Rodríguez. Rivera has two brothers and a sister: José Aníbal, Néstor, and Blanquita, who were raised together in Bayamón. At a young age, Rivera started collecting information and facts that were curious, interesting, and less known to Puerto Ricans. He created his own tables and statistics.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} He would later graduate from the University of Puerto Rico, majoring in psychology and tourism.
Career
At the age of 21, Rivera became a tour guide. Upon turning 23, he became the Academic Director of the Department of Tourism and Air Lines of the Benedict School in San Juan. After this, Rivera directed and coordinated the programs of Tourism and Air Lines on the campuses of Bayamón and Emory College, Caguas. He further directed the Program of Tourist Guides and Operators of Excursions at the National Center of Touristic Studies in Hato Rey.
Rivera gives talks, training, seminars, courses, and conferences in Puerto Rico, the United States, Hispanic America, and Spain. He has appeared and participated in national TV programs including news and interview or talk shows on stations such as WKAQ-TV, WAPA-TV, WIPR-TV, WLII-TV, and WPRM-FM.{{efn|Vargas Casiano (2012; in Spanish) "El grupo [que compone El Circo de La Mega] lo completa Fernan Vélez, Pamela Noa, Che Morales, El Boricuazo, Jay Fonseca, Hambo y Wilfred Morales."{{cite news |url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/juntoselgangsteryfunkyjoehastaelretiro-1262527.html |title=Juntos El Gangster y Funky Joe hasta el retiro |first=Patricia |last=Vargas Casiano |date=May 23, 2012 |accessdate=January 15, 2014 |language=Spanish |newspaper=Primera Hora }}}} He used to have a weekly appearance on Univisión Puerto Rico.
His first book, titled Boricuazo, Tu Orgullo Nacional,{{cite book|title=Boricuazo, tu orgullo nacional|first=Jesús Omar|last=Rivera|publisher=Publicaciones Boricuazo|year=2008|isbn=9781605305011|language=Spanish}} was self-published in early 2008 as a collection of facts about the impact of Puerto Rico and its people on the world.{{efn|" La segunda edición del libro de El Boricuazo ocupa la primera posición en las tiendas Borders desde que salió hace dos semanas, según indicó el gerente de las tiendas en Puerto Rico, Julio Reyes."{{cite web|url=http://www.primerahora.com/entretenimiento/farandula/nota/elorgulloboricuavende-223728|title=El orgullo boricua vende|date=August 27, 2008|publisher=Primera Hora|language=Spanish}}}}
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