Jesús Omar Rivera
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| Jesús Omar Rivera | |
| Born | January 16, 1962 San Juan, Puerto Rico |
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| Nationality | Puerto Rican |
| Other names | "El Boricuazo" |
| Occupation | Writer, (public) speaker, tourist guide, and historian |
| Home town | Bayamón, Puerto Rico |
| Known for | Knowledge of an extensive amount of facts about Puerto Rico and its people |
| Website www.boricuazopr.com |
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Jesús Omar Rivera (born January 16, 1962), also known as El Boricuazo, is a Puerto Rican writer, tourist guide, historian, and (public) speaker. Rivera has made his way into fame and the hearts of Puerto Ricans all over the world for his extensive knowledge about facts of international importance about Puerto Rico and its people. His recent book titled Boricuazo (Tu Orgullo Nacional) is a collection of many of these facts and their history background, which has the purpose of making the reader realize the big impact that Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans have had on the world.
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[edit] Early life
Rivera and his parents, Blanca and Aníbal Rivera, along with his brothers and sister: José Aníbal, Néstor, and Blanquita were a solidary, loving, and united family living in the city of Bayamón where Rivera was raised. From the time he was a kid, Rivera was always attracted to all kinds of information regarding Puerto Rico and would eagerly read every possible book and magazine he could get his hands on that would educate him about his country. Then, Rivera started collecting information and facts that were curious, interesting, and less known to Puerto Ricans. He created his own tables and statistics. The more he educated himself, the more he realized that there was so much information that existed and was publicly unknown, which hadn't even been mentioned in his classes at school. Every day, his discoveries about Puerto Rico made him feel more and more pride in being a Puerto Rican. At the age of 17, before getting into college to study psychology, he wrote on a piece of paper (that he stowed in the trunk and discovered 10 years later): "I would like to work some day in a place where I can teach Puerto Ricans to love and value their country."
[edit] Education
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Studied psychology.
[edit] Career
[edit] Tourism
At the age of 21, Rivera became a national tourist guide and found the perfect forum to transmit his knowledge about the island. He loved going around the island talking to national tourists and foreigners about all the things that originated from his country, a unique and special place. On turning 23 he had the opportunity to start working as the Academic Director of the Department of Tourism and Air Lines from the Bénédict School in San Juan. He made his professors and the administration staff fall in love with the idea of creating and developing an academic institute with a 100% Puerto Rican focus. The deprtment grew like no other and extended to the Campuses in Isabela, Barranquitas, and Manatí. The pride that every student reflected turned it into the academic department with the most enrolled, retained, graduated, and employed. After this profound professional experience, Rivera had the opportunity to direct and coordinate the programs of Tourism and Air Lines in the Campuses of Bayamón, Caguas of the Emory College, and more recently the Program of Tourist Guides and Operators of Excursions of the National Center of Touristic Studies in Hato Rey.
[edit] Speaking
Today, Rivera's professional life is completely concentrated and focused on the offering of talks, trainings, seminars, courses, and conferences in all corners of the national territory. In recent public appearances Rivera includes portions of the content of his first book about Puerto Rico. Also, Rivera frequently appears and participates in national TV programs including TV News and interview or talk shows such as WAPA-TV's A Calzón Quita'o. Currently, Rivera has a weekly appearance on Las Noticias a las 12 of the Univisión Puerto Rico channel with a section called "El Boricuazo" (Boricuazo TV).
[edit] Writing
His first book, titled Boricuazo (Tu Orgullo Nacional) and publicized in early 2008, is a collection of many facts about the significant impact that the small island of Puerto Rico and its people has had on the world.
[edit] Other
Rivera has generally mentioned he has started a very special project but has, until now, been unwilling to declare the details.
