In June 1993, HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros admitted that, " HUD has in many cases exacerbated the declining quality of life in America.

The university chapel dedicated to Saint Ildefonso has a monument to the University's founder, Cardinal Cisneros, by Fancelli, an Italian sculptor.

Throughout his career in politics and business, Cisneros has remained actively involved with creating housing and development to result in urban revitalization for this country ’ s large cities.

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

When John Paul reached his sixth birthday in 1993, Cisneros told Sophfronia Scott Gregory in Time Magazine of his son's ongoing fight for life: " Nothing in my life has prepared me for this.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with an office in San Antonio, Cisneros has built up CityView to be one of the nation ’ s top institutional investment firms focused on urban real estate, in-city housing, and metropolitan infrastructure, working with both residential housing and commercial real estate developers.

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

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.

From the time he attended a conference on American city issues while in college, during his terms as mayor and HUD secretary, to the present, Cisneros has been driven on a crusade to build America ’ s future by improving its cities ’ core along with creating affordable housing for the country ’ s workforce families.

It was said of him when receiving the award: “ Henry's unwavering dedication to this country's inner city economies is a testament to the difference one person can make .” In 2007, Cisneros was honored with the prestigious “ Housing Person of the Year ” Award from the National Housing Conference, where it was said: “ Without question Henry Cisneros has demonstrated a life-long dedication to providing housing to America's working families …” Together with Jack Kemp, he received the Walter F. Mondale and Edward W. Brooke Fair Housing Award in June 2009 from the Fair Housing Alliance.

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

In selecting Cisneros for the honor, Jorge Ferraez, publisher of Latino Leaders magazine stated: “ Henry Cisneros has demonstrated a life-long dedication to public service and improving the life of Latinos.

At a time when the Latino community is prospering, we are pleased to honor Cisneros as a leader who has spent decades paving the way for Latino success in education, housing, and business .”

Cisneros has received multiple honors and awards.

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

Throughout his career, Cisneros has been and continues to be associated with numerous business, corporate, housing trade, civic and governmental, educational, and charitable organizations.

A common theme in the fiction writings of author / poet Sandra Cisneros is marital disillusionment ; she has written the poem " Old Maids " ( 1994 ).

Long an advocate of free enterprise Cisneros has for many years been expanding his operations outside of Venezuela and into overseas markets, including the U. S., Spain and more recently China .< ref name =" TVLatina200501 ">

The former provincial capital founded by the Spanish colonizers was Villa Cisneros, while the town's name under Moroccan administration has become ad-Dakhla.

TIM sold its share in the Venezuelan mobile operator Digitel TIM to Televenco, a company owned by the Cisneros Group, since then the company's name has been Digitel.

The Mexican American community believed they had been neglected for too long by a government who paid more attention to city growth in their own residential and eight months since returning to San Antonio, Cisneros at age 27 was elected the youngest city councilman in the city ’ s history in 1975, the same year his second daughter Mercedes Christina was born.

On April 4, 1981, Cisneros became, at age 33, the first Hispanic mayor of a major U. S. city, and the first Mexican-American mayor of San Antonio since 1842 when Juan Seguín resigned as mayor.

" In his 1999 book, Inside Game / Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America, urban policy consultant David Rusk wrote “… in my view, ( Cisneros was ) the most successful of the ten secretaries of Housing and Urban Development since the cabinet agency was formed in 1965 .” Clinton said Cisneros was a brilliant public servant, and additionally said that people had no idea how much he contributed to the government.

Delegates denied recognition to the Council of Regency in Spain and established a junta to govern in place of Cisneros, since the government that appointed him Viceroy no longer existed.

Pascual Ruiz Huidobro stated that, since the authority that appointed Cisneros had expired, Cisneros should no longer have a place in the government.

Despite the replacement of Cisneros, the Royal Audience and the Cabildo stood with the authorities that existed before the revolution, who opposed the Junta since its first day.

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

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.