AT&T, Coke & more ditch Puerto Rican Day Parade

Big-name sponsors have taken issue with the honoree of the 2017 Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York.

The honoree is Oscar Lopez Rivera, a man involved with the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN linked to U.S. terrorist attacks in the 1970s.

Coca-Cola, AT&T, JetBlue, Univision, The Daily News, the New York Yankees and Goya Foods are among companies pulling their sponsorships for the event scheduled to take place June 11.

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