0.0 Bio 0.0 Actor 0.0 Advocate & Speaker 0.0 Author 0.3 Calendar . VICTOR RIVERS - Actor, Athlete, Activist, Author. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Cuban-born Victor Rivas Rivers tells the heartbreaking, harrowing, and ultimately triumphant story of his escape from what he calls the “war zone” of family violence.

Rivers was born on October 1, 1955, in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba. Victor Rivas Rivers is on Facebook. National spokesperson for the National Network to End Domestic Violence. His father, nicknamed El Ciclon (the Cyclone), was shockingly abusive to his whole family. Join Facebook to connect with Victor Rivas Rivers and others you may know. A veteran film star, best-selling author, renowned advocate for violence prevention, and the first Cuban-born football player to land a tryout with the Miami Dolphins, Victor Rivas Rivers has come a long way since being an abused, angry gang member. Author of A Private Family Matter . 0.1 Home 0.2 Victor . Victor Rivas Rivers: “Domestic violence should be everyone’s issue.” close Exit Site If you are in danger, please use a safer computer, or call a local hotline, or the U.S. National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 and TTY 1-800-787-3224, or 911 if it is safe to do so. At age 17 he debuted on the Cuban National Team adult roster, where he played two seasons. Victor Rivas Rivers .

Victor Rivas Rivers is an Cuban-born-American actor and voice actor best known for his role as Joaquin Murrieta in the action-adventure film The Mask of Zorro. The names of Rivers' parents are not known, as is why he wanted to become an actor. Veteran star of more than two dozen films. Víctor Rivas Goire (born April 30, 1992), also known as Victor Rivas, is a Cuban professional baseball first baseman.Rivas played for the Cuban National Baseball Team in two international competitions. He burned Victor's lips with a cigarette, tied him down and beat him with a dog leash, would wake him from sleep with a hard slap to the face, and punched his pregnant wife in the belly hard enough for the baby to be born developmentally impaired. Victor Rivas Rivers was the son of Cuban immigrants. 0.0 Schedule of Events 0.0 Past Events 0.4 Media . Leaders in their field and highly sought after keynote speakers for nonprofits, corporate, colleges/univerities, military, law enforcement, associations, and many other venues.