Univision latest to bail on Puerto Rican Day Parade Univision is the latest to pull out of the parade due to organizers’ plans to honor Oscar López Rivera. Univision is the latest to pull out of the parade due to organizers’ plans to honor Oscar López Rivera. (ALVIN BAEZ/REUTERS) BY PETER SBLENDORIO NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, May 25, 2017, 5:58 PM Univision is the latest major sponsor to yank its support from next month's Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Daily News has learned.
The New York-based Spanish-language network joins a long list of major brands that have bailed on the popular event, due to the controversial decision by organizers to honor recently released FALN nationalist Oscar López Rivera, whose group has been connected to more than 100 bombings in the 1970s and 1980s.
Outraged sponsors have been dropping like flies since López Rivera will participate and be named the parade's first-ever National Freedom Hero. Others who have dropped in what has become a cascading boycott include Goya, Jet Blue, the Daily News, the Yankees, Coca-Cola, AT&T, Corona and the FDNY officers' union.
NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi Parade goers wave flags while attending the 59th annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade last year in New York. (LUIZ C. RIBEIRO/FOR THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS) "WXTV Univision 41, WADO 1280 AM and La X 96.3 will not be sponsors of this year’s Puerto Rican Day Parade. Our station’s news team will continue to provide news coverage of the event as we do with other similar events of this size in our community," Univision said in a statement to the Daily News.
Corona cans Puerto Rican Day Parade sponsorship "In lieu of participating, we will redirect funds to the organizer’s scholarship fund to benefit Puerto Rican students."
BOMBINGS - FRAUNCES TAVERN-ANGLERS CLUB (VICTIMS)
Cop calls for help as he kneels by victim in rubble of Anglers and Tarpon Club, next to Fraunces Tavern, on Broad St.
Remembering the Fraunces Tavern bombing Univision had no plans to broadcast the event, but the network had intended to sponsor three floats in the parade. Employees and talent from Univision had been expected to appear too.
López Rivera, who spent over 35 years behind bars, was a member of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) that took credit for over 100 bombings during the 1970s and 80s. Those bombings took place in both Puerto Rico and the United States.
Univision will not participate in the parade.
Four people died in a bombing attack on Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan in 1975.
Puerto Rican Day Parade exodus continues as Brooklyn DA backs out López Rivera's sentence was commuted by former President Obama shortly before he left office in January.
I used to live in Manhattan. I can easily say that the Puerto Rican Day parade was the absolute worst day of the year in the city. Imagine your town being overrun by thousands of drunk kids who have no respect for anything, including themselves. The Sanitation Department would have to work lots of overtime to clean up after these upstanding youths.
There were a lot of fun things about living in Manhattan as a young man, but the summer was not one of them because nearly every week some main street was shut down for a parade for one ethnic group or another. Most of them were a minor inconvenience, but Puerto Rican Day was definitely a day to make plans outside of the city.
May 25, 2017, 07:47 PM
Edmond
Funny that Venezuelans I know tell me to avoid Kissimmee because it's mostly Puerto Rican there.
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May 26, 2017, 01:20 AM
FiveFiveSixFan
Tucker's reaction to the views of this NYC Democratic councilman is priceless.
May 26, 2017, 04:53 AM
msfzoe
Can't blame sponsors for refusing to support a convicted terrorist.
May 26, 2017, 04:53 AM
downtownv
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Originally posted by FiveFiveSixFan: Tucker's reaction to the views of this NYC Democratic councilman is priceless.
Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan: I used to live in Manhattan. I can easily say that the Puerto Rican Day parade was the absolute worst day of the year in the city. Imagine your town being overrun by thousands of drunk kids who have no respect for anything, including themselves. The Sanitation Department would have to work lots of overtime to clean up after these upstanding youths.
There were a lot of fun things about living in Manhattan as a young man, but the summer was not one of them because nearly every week some main street was shut down for a parade for one ethnic group or another. Most of them were a minor inconvenience, but Puerto Rican Day was definitely a day to make plans outside of the city.
How bad was the West Indian day parade?
May 26, 2017, 05:00 AM
kz1000
Hubcap City staying as a sponsor?
------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt"
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris
May 26, 2017, 06:00 AM
SgtGold
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Originally posted by CD228: How bad was the West Indian day parade?
Every year there are several murders directly related to that parade. I work with several west Indian people who flat out won't be on the street anywhere near that parade.
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May 26, 2017, 08:01 AM
parabellum
That piece of shit will always fail to do the right thing, even on the rare occasions when he actually recognizes the truth. Clueless, America hating commie fuck.
"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
May 26, 2017, 08:10 AM
2012BOSS302
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Tucker's reaction to the views of this NYC Democratic councilman is priceless.
How about a "you're a fucking communist idiot piece of trash, shut up"... mic off
I like to see these assholes make total fools of themselves for all to see, but sometimes I just want them to kill the mic while that are spouting such utter nonsense.
Donald Trump is not a politician, he is a leader, politicians are a dime a dozen, leaders are priceless.
May 26, 2017, 08:59 AM
Scoutmaster
Is this the same Puerto Rico that is bankrupt? Let's celebrate a failed culture.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944
