FIMRC has partnered with the Roberto Clemente Rancho Santana clinic to provide medical care to children living in the rural western town of Limón, Nicaragua, which is near the city of Rivas.
Through his missionary work with Father Pedro Regalado in the parishes of San Juan del Sur and Tola in the department of Rivas, García Laviana worked closely with the Nicaraguan peasants and was intimately aware of the many hardships they faced.
Ingrid Yahoska Narvaez (born 15 February 1994 in Tola) is a Nicaraguan sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.
Research at sites such as Rivas, Costa Rica helps to document the configurations of large settlements in the centuries prior to the Spanish Conquest.
José Laureano Pineda Ugarte (Rivas 4 July 1802 – † 17 September 1853) was the 26th and 29th President (then called Supreme Director) of Nicaragua from 5 May to 11 August 1851, as dissident from 4 August, and from 11 November 1851 to 1 April 1853.
While there are disagreements about where the “narrow neck of land” resides, e.g. southern Mexico, Honduras, the Isthmus of Rivas between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Panama, the following list of theories can all be categorized as Central American based.
José Antonio Meléndez Rodríguez (born January 9, 1962, Rivas, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan American guitar player, composer, singer, and songwriter who was born without arms.
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Rivas turned professional in 1995 and captured the WBO super flyweight title with a decision win over Diego Morales in 1999.
Avimiled Rivas Quintero (born 17 October 1984 in Cali) is a Colombian football player who has played for Millonarios, Deportes Quindío, Atlético Nacional, CP Ejido, SD Eibar and Once Caldas, as well as the Colombian national team.
Bárbaro Rivas (4 December 1893 – 12 March 1967), was a Venezuelan naive painter born in Petare.
The Cárcamo de Dolores (Sump of Dolores) is a hydraulic structure located on the Second Section of Chapultepec Park, in Mexico City, comprising the building designed by architect Ricardo Rivas, inside the originally underwater mural Agua, el origen de la vida (Water, source of life) of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, the art installation Cámara Lambdoma by Ariel Guzik, and in outside, the Tlaloc Fountain, also of Rivera.
Carlos Rivas Godoy (born 3 September 1985 in Toronto) is a Canadian footballer and his position is midfielder and his currently team is Universidad de Concepción.
Desario formed in early 2004 when John Conley, Michael Yoas and Jim Rivas, who had played together previously in various other bands including Holiday Flyer, got together and started writing songs.
Rivas composed for the popular show Sesame Street for singers as diverse as Celia Cruz, Gloria Estefan and Cyndi Lauper sharing two Emmy award wins with the Music team in 1994 and 1995.
Guillermo Rivas Rowlatt (December 25, 1927 – March 19, 2004) was a Mexican character actor known for portraying "El Borras" in the Telesistema Mexicano sitcom Los Beverly de Peralvillo (1968–1973).
José María Rivas Martínez (born May 12, 1958 in San Salvador) is a former football player from El Salvador.
Manuel Alejandro Salazar Rivas (born January 23, 1986 in San Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran footballer.
Rivas managed the wireless communications business of Philips Semiconductor as well as its foundry operations, purchasing, and assembly and test with headquarters in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Martiño Rivas (1985-), also known as Martín Rivas, a Spanish actor.
Burelli Rivas, was born in La Puerta, Venezuela, graduated as lawyer with a post-graduate degree in Political Sciences in University of Florence and a post-graduate degree in Law from the University of Madrid, Spain.
The opposite occurs in regions like the Rio San Juan or Rivas, where the S at the end of words is frequently pronounced.
Pedro Geoffroy Rivas (September 16, 1908 in Santa Ana, El Salvador – November 10, 1979 in San Salvador, El Salvador) was an anthropologist, poet, and linguist.
In 1955, Isabel Rivas, a Portuguese aviation fan in the 50's, went to France to take a parachuting course in Biscarrosse, France.
Raúl Chibás Rivas (April 25, 1916 – August 25, 2002) was a Cuban politician and military officer who initially supported Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution but later defected to the United States.
Nicknamed La Burra (The Donkey), Rivas was a one-club man and has only played for Alianza during the 1960s and won two league titles in 1965 and 1966 when he played alongside fellow club legends like José Quintanilla, Mario Monge and Francisco Zamora.
Sabina Moya Rivas (born January 27, 1977 in Turbo, Antioquia) is a retired female javelin thrower from Colombia.
Then, in 1972 she achieved stardom in Alberto Migré's soap operas "Rolando Rivas, taxista" and the first production of "Pobre diabla" (telenovela).
One year later, on March 23, 2012, Investigation Discovery aired an episode of Werner Herzog's documentary series On Death Row which dealt with Rivas and Garcia.
It premiered in 2001, directed by Jean Randich and conducted by Juan Carlos Rivas.
In the 1956 film version it was sung by Reuben Fuentes dubbing for Carlos Rivas and Leona Gordon dubbing for Rita Moreno.