{"id":58777,"date":"2017-12-12T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-hitns-president-and-ceo-to-be-special-guest-at-the-xix-festival-de-los-reyes-magos-de-vieques-puerto-rico\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:16:02","slug":"ceo-y-presidente-de-hitn-participara-como-invitado-especial-en-el-xix-festival-de-los-reyes-magos-de-vieques-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/ceo-y-presidente-de-hitn-participara-como-invitado-especial-en-el-xix-festival-de-los-reyes-magos-de-vieques-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"HITN&#8217;s President and CEO To Be Special Guest at the XIX Festival de los Reyes Magos de Vieques, Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">BROOKLYN, N.Y.<\/span>, Dec.\u00a012, 2017 \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;<b>\u00a0HITN<\/b>, the leading Spanish-language network that offers educational and entertainment content to more than 44 million households across <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>, confirmed the attendance of <span class=\"xn-person\">Mike Nieves<\/span>, the network&#8217;s President and CEO, as a special guest member of the board of directors of the XIX Festival de los Reyes Magos de Vieques.\u00a0 Nieves was invited in recognition of his tireless efforts to defend the rights of Puerto Ricans on the mainland.\u00a0 The festival will take place on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sunday, January 7, 2018<\/span> in Esperanza Park in Vieques, <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg08cbleft\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg08cbleft\" title=\"HITN Logo\" style=\"HEIGHT: 400px; WIDTH: 400px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"HITN Logo\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/613816\/HITN_Logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It is an honor to attend the XIX Festival de los Reyes Magos de Vieques this year on behalf of all of the Puerto Ricans who strive to uphold Puerto Rican values and traditions outside of the island,&#8221; remarked <span class=\"xn-person\">Michael D. Nieves<\/span>, President and CEO of HITN. &#8220;It is important to start 2018 with the certainty that we are capable of facing misfortune with the cheerfulness and persistence that characterize our people. <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> is reinventing itself following its recent calamity by doing what it does best: celebrating life through its music, values and traditions.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Nieves was one of two <i>boricuas<\/i> unanimously chosen as honorees by the festival&#8217;s board of directors this year for their dedication to promoting the rights of Puerto Ricans in the mainland US.\u00a0 The organizers cited Nieves&#8217;s activism and humanitarian work. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ever since the Festival de los Reyes Magos de Vieques was founded in 2000, Michael has given us his unconditional support in the form of his participation and sponsorship,&#8221; noted Ram\u00f3n Figuero Sorrintin, President and Founder of the Festival de los Reyes Magos de Vieques. &#8220;He supports the Vieques community in other ways as well through his collaboration with &#8216;Vieques en Rescate,&#8217; a nonprofit organization that assists cancer patients on the island.\u00a0 For all of these reasons, we felt he deserved to have the festival dedicated to him this year.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Michael D. Nieves<\/span> currently leads HITN&#8217;s general operations, making sure its programming is in line with the network&#8217;s vision and mission.\u00a0 These include educating viewers by providing relevant content that helps them understand their civic duties and responsibilities as useful members of society.\u00a0 Before joining HITN, Nieves held a number of city government positions in <span class=\"xn-location\">New York City<\/span>, where he is known for his political activism and humanitarian work. <\/p>\n<p><b>ABOUT <\/b><b>HITN<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>HITN-TV<\/b> is a leading Spanish-language media company that offers educational and cultural programming for the whole family.\u00a0 It reaches more than 44 million viewers in the US and <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> via DIRECTV, DISH Network, AT&amp;T U-verse TV, Verizon FiOS TV, Comcast, Charter Spectrum, Frontier Mediacom, CenturyLink Prism and Cablevision.\u00a0 For more information, please visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hitn.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.hitn.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/613816\/HITN_Logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/613816\/HITN_Logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  HITN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">BROOKLYN, N.Y.<\/span>, Dec.\u00a012, 2017 \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;<b>\u00a0HITN<\/b>, the leading Spanish-language network that offers educational and entertainment content to more than 44 million households across <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>, confirmed the attendance of <span class=\"xn-person\">Mike Nieves<\/span>, the network&#8217;s President and CEO, as a special guest member of the board of directors of the XIX Festival de los Reyes Magos de Vieques.\u00a0 Nieves was invited in recognition of his tireless efforts to defend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entretenimiento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}