“Invademos a Iran”
AIPAC, the tip of the Israel lobby spear in Washington, began an executive search for a Deputy Director for Hispanic Outreach (PDF) in August of 2006. Reporting directly to AIPAC’s “National Outreach Director” in Washington, the responsibility of the new deputy director will be to “develop relationships with key members of the Hispanic community and encourage their involvement in political advocacy in support of the US-Israel relationship.”
AIPAC’s focus on the Hispanic community dovetails with an unprecedented opportunity for Spanish language media outreach. Shareholders of Univision Communications, the leading Spanish-language broadcaster in the U.S., voted to sell the company last week to a group of private-equity firms for $12.3 billion. The deal was signed even though a higher bid from Mexican TV giant Grupo Televisa was still on the table. Led by media mogul Haim Saban, the US group acquired the equivalent of the “ABC” network in terms of Spanish speaking US viewership. Among all Spanish-language US networks, Univision averaged 3.7 million viewers followed by Telemundo at 880,000 and TeleFutura’s 660,000 viewers.
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