That company evolved to become CityView where Cisneros is currently Executive Chairman.

Cisneros currently serves on Univision ’ s Board of Directors.

Cisneros is currently a board member for the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, and after-School All-Stars, founded by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in addition to being a member of the Advisory Boards of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation, among others.

It was ( and currently still is ) owned by the Azcárraga family from the Venezuelan Family Cisneros, who had signed on Mexico's first radio station, XEW-AM, in 1930.

A Democrat, Cisneros served as the 10th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) in the administration of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

Prior to his cabinet position, Cisneros served four terms as the second Hispanic mayor of a major U. S. city, ( the first being Alfonso Cervantes of St. Louis, Missouri 1965 – 1973 ) his hometown of San Antonio, Texas.

After public office, Cisneros served as President and COO for the Spanish-language network Univision from 1997 to 2000 before forming American City Vista to work the nation ’ s leading homebuilders to create homes priced within the range of average families.

Cisneros served as an infantry officer in the United States Army.

In 1971, the year his eldest daughter Teresa Angelica was born, Cisneros was honored as a White House Fellow and served as an assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Elliot Richardson.

After leaving HUD in January 1997, Cisneros moved his family to Los Angeles and served from 1997 to 2000 as president and chief operating officer of Univision Communications, the nation ’ s largest Spanish-language broadcaster that had become the fifth-most-watched television network in the nation.

Cisneros served as a member of the Debt Reduction Task Force at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Cisneros has spoken to every major Latino group across the U. S, and has served on the boards of numerous Latino organizations.

Latina writing became important thanks to authors such as Sandra Cisneros, an icon of an emerging Chicano literature whose 1984 bildungsroman The House on Mango Street is taught in schools across the United States, Denise Chavez's The Last of the Menu Girls and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza.

When Christian conversion efforts on the part of Granada's first archbishop, Hernando de Talavera, brought Muslim opposition, Cardinal Jimenez de Cisneros took stronger measures: with forced conversions, burning Islamic texts, and prosecuting many of Granada's Muslims.

From Dakar, flights were made to Dakhla Airport, near Villa Cisneros in what was then Spanish Sahara, or to Atar Airport, depending on the load on the air route.

At Siguenza, Cisneros won praise for his work and he seemed to be on the sure road to success among the secular clergy, when in 1484 at the late age of forty-eight he abruptly decided to become a Franciscan friar.

In return for his loyalty, Ferdinand made Cisneros Grand Inquisitor for Castile and León in 1507 and prevailed on the Pope to give him a Cardinal's hat.

A few hours after this virtual dismissal ( which some say the cardinal did not have time to learn about ) Cardinal Cisneros died at Roa, on 8 November 1517.

* Rummel, Erika ( 1999 ), Jimenez De Cisneros / on the Threshold of Spain's Golden Age, ISBN 0-86698-254-X

Cisneros has authored, edited and collaborated on several books, and is an in-demand public speaker.

As his parents survived great adversity and advanced through life with an unfailing belief in hard work, education merit leading to a better life, Cisneros along with his two brothers and two sisters were raised in a highly structured environment that put emphasis on scholarly studies and the arts.

In 1967, Cisneros was selected to attend the annual Student Conference on United States Affairs at West Point where he first learned that U. S. cities were in serious trouble.

As a city council member, Cisneros took assorted populist positions on such issues as dealing with labor, water, education, and housing, among others.

Significantly, in a split vote on the city council on whether to accept a Justice Department order to establish an election plan that would provide more access to the Latino community with direct representation, or challenge the order in court, Cisneros voted to accept the order.

During his time on the city council, Cisneros formed a relationship with Communities Organized for Public Service ( COPS ), a powerful grassroots Latino advocacy group founded in 1973 whose focus was to push for development funding into the city ’ s Latino communities.

The national visibility Cisneros gained as mayor of San Antonio led to President Ronald Reagan appointing him in 1983 to the Bipartisan Commission on Central America, chaired by Henry Kissinger.

Cisneros was selected to give the highly visible “ Platform Presentation ” at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco on July 17, 1984.

Rep. Rick Lazio ( R-NY ), chairman of the House subcommittee on housing and community opportunity in 1996 said Cisneros displayed " the correct balance of advocacy on behalf of the president and a willingness to think creatively and outside the box in terms of solutions.

HOPE VI was not without controversy, and Cisneros even appeared on Montel Williams ' talk show to discuss HUD's plan to raze America's most crime-ridden, dilapidated housing projects and replace them with attractive new homes with modern amenities in mixed-use developments.

In addition to HUD focusing on the poor, Cisneros seized the goal of the Clinton administration to widen homeownership opportunities.

As Secretary, Cisneros attacked head on fair housing policies.

Cisneros took on the unenviable position to completely restructure the HUD bureaucracy.

In December 1997, Cisneros was indicted on 18 counts of conspiracy, giving false statements and obstruction of justice.

In December 1997, Cisneros was indicted on 18 counts of conspiracy, giving false statements and obstruction of Justice.

* In the field of religion, Niagara alumni include: Nelson Baker, Founder of the " City of Charity " and candidate for canonization ; Anthony Raymond Ceresko, Old Testament scholar ; and several American prelates of the Roman Catholic Church including Octavio Cisneros, Edmund Michael Dunne, Joseph Lennox Federal, Edmund Gibbons, Thomas Francis Lillis, James Johnston Navagh, and Donald Walter Trautman.

Cisneros ’ collaboration with his wife in caring for John Paul — who later recovered to flourish in school after several major surgeries — brought the two back together.

Cisneros has also been author, editor or collaborator in several books, including Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation, a project with the late former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp ; Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy was presented the Common Purpose Award for demonstrating the potential of bipartisan cooperation ; and Casa y Comunidad: Latino Home and Neighborhood Design, a publication that took the first-ever look at the growing and increasingly prosperous U. S. Latino community and its housing needs, was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal in the category of best business book of 2006.

Cisneros has a significant history of authoring, co-authoring, editing and contributing to several books and publications, along with speaking, narration and television appearances.

As had happened several times in the last few days, Romero explained that the soldiers would mutiny if forced to fight against the rioters on behalf of Cisneros.

* 1961: In response to the serious problem of violence related with the bipartisan political conflict the national government created the 8th division of the Army ( octava brigada ) and the Cisneros Military base to operate in this area.

Cisneros ’ campaign for mayor and subsequent election gained the attention of national media who made Cisneros the symbol of the growing Latino population in the United States.

According to Richard Garcia, “ Cisneros, above all, exemplified the rise of the Mexican American generation and the search for … its identity .” He was positively profiled by such national publications as the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Esquire and The New Yorker.

In his eight years as mayor of San Antonio, Cisneros attracted national attention for his success in developing new economic growth in the city's business sector, and with his diplomatic skills to ' promote cooperation ' among the city's various ethnic groups.

His viability as a national leader was confirmed in 1985 when Cisneros was elected president of the National League of Cities.

In 1989, Cisneros left public office and became chairman of the Cisneros Asset Management Company, a national asset-management investment firm that managed $ 550 million in fixed-income accounts.

Cisneros told the San Antonio Express-News: " There are efforts under way to eliminate important national efforts which provide shelter and assistance to millions of low-income Americans.

Cisneros ’ continued active involvement in the real estate industry has led to him receiving multiple national honors.

Additionally, Cisneros is a co-founder of the New American Alliance, a national organization united to promote the economic advancement of the American Latino community