Susa y Epifanio

Epifanio González Villamil is a fictional character (played by Puerto Rican comedian, special education teacher, choreographer and dancer Víctor Alicea), who, along with his on-again, off-again partner, Jesusa Cruz Avilés (played by Puerto Rican singer and comedian Carmen Nydia Velázquez) have appeared in popular radio and television programs in Puerto Rico for close to twenty years. Susa y Epifanio have enjoyed sustained popularity in the island country regardless of the media format and program format their interpreters have had to adopt through the years. They currently appear on the radio program "Prende El Fogón" which airs weekdays at noon (AST) on WSKN-AM in San Juan, and on "El Fogón TV", aired on weekdays at 5:00 PM (AST) on WORO-TV in Carolina. They also make frequent personal appearances all through Puerto Rico.

Carmen Nydia Velázquez is quick to remind people of the existence of her namesake, Nydia Velázquez, a Puerto Rico-born congresswoman for the Lower East Side section of New York City. The two are not directly related.

Don Epifanio was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico sometime near 1945, and claims to having been raised in an upper class subsection of town called "La Rambla" (named after La Rambla in Barcelona, Spain, a city after which many of Ponce's features and landmarks have been modeled). In reality, according to their one-time producer, Luisito Vigoreaux, Don Epifanio was born on the coastal sub-section of La Guancha, which is a working-class neighborhood. Since ponceños (the inhabitants of Ponce) have a reputation for being very fond of their hometown at best -and have a rather snobbyish attitude about it at their worst, in a way that reminds people of the civic pride of Texans with long-term genealogical ties to the state (Ponce is named after Juan Ponce de León's family) have about it-, Don Epifanio considers Ponce to be heaven on Earth, and is a constant promoter of the phrase: "Ponce es Ponce y lo demás es parking" ("Ponce is Ponce, and the rest –of Puerto Rico- is parking). However, he has since reluctantly moved to Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he lives.

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