José "Nía" Rivera Díaz is a Puerto Rican businessman and former politician. He was mayor of

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from 1977 to 1980. Rivera served in the

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and was stationed in southern

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in the early 1960s. There, he met and married Christa Schätz, a

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woman. They moved to New York, where they begat Lynda and

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(who became a Puerto Rican Senator and

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). In 1966, they moved to Puerto Rico and begat their daughter Sylvia.

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