UNIVISION NIX IS LATEST BLOW
THE SPANISH language network Univision yanked its support from next month’s National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Daily News has learned. The New York-based Spanish-language network joins a long list of sponsors balking over the organizers’ decision to honor Oscar Lopez Rivera, who was convicted for his involvement with FALN, a militant group tied to more than 100 bombings in New York and other cities in the 1970s and 1980s. Four people were killed in the 1975 bombing of Fraunces Tavern on Water St. in the Financial District. Lopez Rivera was not charged with the violence, but was convicted of seditious conspiracy — plotting to overthrow the federal government — and sentenced in 1981 to 55 years in prison. President Barack Obama commuted his sentence in January and he was released last week. Univision joined Goya, Jet Blue, the Daily News, the Yankees, Coca-Cola, AT&T, and Corona in withdrawing from the parade.