Arts & Culture

New York, NY--(HISPANIC PR WIRE)--April 16, 2007--Next Thursday, April 19, at 9 p.m. Eastern Time, HITN-TV – the channel that educates and entertains – will present another live edition of its original program, Latinoamerica Hoy. This edition, titled Latinoamerica Hoy: Crisis in Oaxaca, Still Unresolved, will host a discussion about the social upheaval taking place since last year in Oaxaca, Mexico, when a teachers’ strike led to a popular movement. The program will also present the Spanish premier of two documentaries about this issue: “Land, Rain and Fire: Report from Oaxaca” and “The Assault”.

Journalist Juan Carlos Fernández will host a guest panel that will include Rocío Luna Acevedo, delegate of the teachers union, who will participate from Oaxaca. Guests at HITN-TV studios will include Gerardo Renique, writer and professor of Latin American history at City College of New York; and social filmmaker Tami Gold. Viewers will be able to participate in the live discussion through phone and e-mail.

“At HITN-TV we believe in the importance of discussing this type of topics within the Latino community. For that reason, we are committed to work hand in hand with the Latino community in the US and to serve as a medium that facilitates this type of dialogue”, said Jose Luis Rodriguez, President of HITN-TV.

HITN-TV is available throughout the United States through channels 438 (DirecTV) and 843 & 9401 (Dish Network). HITN-TV is also available in the following cities and cable systems:

CA: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose & Santa Clara (AT&T U-verse, channel 3055)
CA: Watsonville, Capitola, Central, San Luis Obispo, West Sacramento & Turlock (Charter Cable, channel 264)
CO: Denver (Comcast, channel 649)
CT: New Haven, Hartford & Stamford (AT&T U-verse, channel 3055)
IN: Indianapolis (AT&T U-verse, channel 3055)
MO: Kansas City (Time Warner Cable, channel 167)
NJ: Parts of the counties of Bergen & Hudson (Time Warner Cable, channel 811)
NV: Reno (Charter Cable, channel 264)
NY: Manhattan, Queens & Brooklyn (Time Warner Cable, channel 811)
TX: Austin (Time Warner Cable, channel 645)
TX: Houston & San Antonio (AT&T U-verse, channel 3055)
TX: San Antonio (Time Warner Cable, channel 294)
WA: Statewide (Charter Cable, channel 264)

Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, Inc. (HITN-TV) is the first Latino/Spanish-language public television network providing educational and cultural programming in the United States. For more information visit: http://www.hitn.tv