When Heroes Have Feet of Clay: Cesar Chavez Was a Serial Abuser of Young Girlshttps://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/03/19/when-heroes-have-feet-of-clay-cesar-chavez-was-a-serial-abuser-of-young-girls-n4950816Cesar Chavez, a civil rights icon and Mexican-American saint, had a dark past that many of his contemporaries knew about but refused to act upon.
Chavez liked underage teen girls. He took several of them to his private office about 100 miles outside of Los Angeles, where he would molest and rape them, some as young as 12 years old. He also assaulted and raped adult women.
Everyone who knew kept quiet to avoid tarnishing the icon's reputation or hurting the cause he fought for.
The shocking revelations were printed in the New York Times on late Wednesday afternoon and sent a shockwave through the liberal community. The five-year Times investigation interviewed more than 60 people and examined thousands of pages of personal papers, union board meeting notes, and dozens of tape recordings.
A handful of Mr. Chavez’s relatives and former U.F.W. leaders have been aware for years about various allegations of sexual misconduct, but there is no evidence that they made efforts to fully investigate the accusations, acknowledge the victims or apologize to them. Instead, many of the women say they were discouraged from speaking out in order to preserve Mr. Chavez’s public image.
Internal emails dating back over a decade show union members discussing Ms. Murguia’s claims of abuse and the impact it had on her life. One of Ms. Murguia’s relatives confronted Mr. Chavez while he was still alive, in the 1980s. According to the relative, Mr. Chavez offered no defense and responded only by clearing his throat.
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Ninety-six-year-old Dolores Huerta, Chavez's closest advisor, tells the Times, "Mr. Chavez drove her out to a secluded grape field, parked and raped her inside the vehicle." Huerta, who was 36 at the time, said "she chose not to report the assault to the police because of their hostility toward the movement, and she feared that no one within the union would believe her."
Several young girls ended up as victims of Chavez, who used his power and the girls' hero worship of him to abuse them.
Article author Moran honors what he believes Chavez accomplished. Maybe Moran or his family benefited from the UFW.
This farmer's son sees those "accomplishments" as crap-coated by Chavez's and his Dem pols' broad-broom slander of the many farmers who did NOT abuse their migrant workers. My father was among the numerous non-abusers Chavez slandered. These revelations, IMO, are of another layer of crap coating Chavez's "accomplishments", his abuse of the women and girls he was supposedly benefiting and the complicity in that abuse of the women coworkers he raped. And even after his death, the union Leaders and activists still hid what he was to keep the gravy in the gravy train of his icon-hood flowing.
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