"I still can't quite believe it - that such a courageous person who fought for all of us to ensure we had shade, water, clean restrooms, better working conditions, that such a person, so dedicated to the people ... could do that."
"Huerta, now 95, revealed for the first time publicly that Chavez manipulated her into sex and raped her in the 1960s, telling The New York Times that the two encounters each left her pregnant. The Times' multi-year investigation, published Wednesday, also detailed accusations by two women, daughters of union organizers, who said Chavez sexually abused them when they were children in the 1970s."
"I feel for them; it really pains me in the bottom of my soul what happened to them. But if what happened is true, why wasn't it spoken of a long time ago? Why now?"
Cesar Chavez, the co-founder of the United Farm Workers union and celebrated labor icon, faces serious sexual assault accusations revealed through a New York Times investigation. Dolores Huerta, now 95 and Chavez's longtime collaborator, disclosed for the first time that Chavez manipulated and raped her twice in the 1960s, resulting in pregnancies. The investigation also documents accusations from two women, daughters of union organizers, alleging Chavez sexually abused them as children during the 1970s. California's farmworking communities struggle to reconcile these disturbing revelations with Chavez's celebrated public image as a champion of farmworker rights and better working conditions. The delayed disclosure raises questions about why these allegations were not addressed earlier.
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