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According to ImmDef, detainees also witnessed Ramos having trouble breathing and witnessed him removing his shirt because \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://lataco.com/14th-ice-custody-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>he felt he was suffocating\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. For years, immigrant and disability rights groups have raised alarms about the conditions inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. Ismael Ayala-Uribe \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-09-24/former-daca-recipient-from-mexico-dies-inside-adelanto-detention-center-criticized-for-poor-conditions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>died after being held at Adelanto\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for about a month last year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Homeland Security officials said in a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/criminal-illegal-alien-passes-away-ice-custody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>statement\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that guards found Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano unconscious in his bunk bed on March 25. Onsite medical staff performed CPR, according to the statement, and Ramos was taken to a medical center in Victorville where he was pronounced dead at 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to DHS, Ramos was arrested in 2025 in Los Angeles county for possession of a controlled substance and theft of personal property and was convicted later that year. Federal Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents arrested Ramos on Feb. 23 during an operation in Torrance and transferred him to Adelanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos also received a complete health and physical evaluation during his intake screening at the Adelanto facility on Feb. 24, which identified that he had several medical issues including diabetes and hypertension. “He received constant medical care while he was in custody, including daily medication to treat his illness,” reads the DHS statement. DHS said staff immediately initiated life-saving procedures when he was found unresponsive and emphasized their “commitment to ensuring safe, secure, and humane environments” for people in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, detainees who called their rapid response hotline the morning after Ramos’ death said that guards didn’t respond until he was unconscious. According to ImmDef, detainees also witnessed Ramos having trouble breathing and witnessed him removing his shirt because \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://lataco.com/14th-ice-custody-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>he felt he was suffocating\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. For years, immigrant and disability rights groups have raised alarms about the conditions inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. Ismael Ayala-Uribe \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-09-24/former-daca-recipient-from-mexico-dies-inside-adelanto-detention-center-criticized-for-poor-conditions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>died after being held at Adelanto\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for about a month last year. A few weeks later, Gabriel Garcia Aviles \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-11-06/federal-lawmakers-demand-answers-after-gabriel-garcia-aviles-dies-in-custody-at-adelanto-ice-processing-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>died from cardiac arrest\u003c/u>\u003c/a> just one week after being transferred to the Adelanto facility. \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/brief/news/westlake-man-dies-at-adelanto-detention-facility-after-asking-for-medical-help-councilmember-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Alberto Gutierrez Reyes\u003c/u>\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2026-03-09/second-death-linked-to-adelanto-ice-facility-reported-in-two-weeks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Irvin Cruz Nape\u003c/u>\u003c/a> both died after being detained there earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15dvdx32v0o\">has vowed to take action after the death of the Mexican national.\u003c/a> Mexico’s government is filing a legal brief as part of a class-action lawsuit alleging unconstitutional conditions at the facility. The number of immigrants in ICE custody is among the highest ever, with 68,000 held as of last month.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>While shockwaves reverberated from sexual abuse allegations against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cesar-chavez\">César Chavez\u003c/a> this month, Maria Rodriguez-Salazar, a San Francisco mariachi teacher, immediately thought of her students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were putting the finishing touches on the public school district’s annual mariachi showcase planned for that Friday, and a song that 100 of the high schoolers had spent months preparing, “Corrido de las Heladas,” referenced the late leader of California’s farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the sentences says, ‘Come, dove, and say to César Chavez to stop shedding tears for us,’” Rodriguez-Salazar said. “When I was listening to the news on that Wednesday, I thought, ‘Uh-oh.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and the program’s director quickly swapped his name for “campesinos,” which means “farmers,” and the show went on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the aftermath of \u003cem>The New York Times’ \u003c/em>investigation revealing allegations that Chavez sexually abused two young girls in the 1970s and raped United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta in the 1960s, teachers across the state are grappling with how to address his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077789/farmworker-advocates-grapple-with-legacy-changes-as-california-replaces-chavez-holiday\">widely studied and once-revered legacy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shifting lesson plans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>David Ko, a ninth-grade ethnic studies teacher at George Washington High School, said his students wanted to talk about the news immediately after the investigation was published on March 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had some students who, even before classes started, during passing period, asked me about it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year, Ko teaches a lesson about Chavez just before his birthday on March 31, a state holiday that many students have had off school for years. In the past, he would ask his classes what they knew about César Chavez Day and teach them about Chavez’s roles in the Delano grape strike and the founding of the United Farm Workers labor union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12005220 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Washington High School on March 30, 2020, in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, he said, that lesson plan will be more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the holiday, which falls during the San Francisco Unified School District’s spring break, Ko last week gave a broad overview of the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>’ investigation. He also pointed out that the state has already renamed its holiday to Farmworkers Day, and that cities and institutions are moving to swiftly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\">scrub his name\u003c/a> from streets, parks and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez is prevalent in California’s curriculum frameworks and model lesson plans, and the state provides a long list of activities and resources for every grade level framed around César Chavez Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ko said he didn’t have to throw his existing curriculum out the window last week; he’s never portrayed Chavez as solely a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">“hero” in the farmworker movement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s people who have done remarkable, amazing accomplishments in advancing people’s rights, and also, even before the most recent allegations, it’s also possible for those same people to have harmful ideas,” Ko told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A complex legacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For years, Ko’s classes have studied the more nuanced parts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077230/californias-political-reckoning-with-cesar-chavezs-legacy-after-allegations\">Chavez’s legacy\u003c/a>, such as his opposition to undocumented immigrants working on farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least in San Francisco, many educators have shifted their focus away from Chavez when they cover the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students are often taught, ‘This one great man who was so exceptional, did all these amazing things and they are the reason that these rights happened,’” ethnic studies teacher Samantha Aguirre said. “What they don’t always learn is that it was hundreds, tens of thousands of people behind them in the movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/038_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/038_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/038_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/038_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">United Farm Workers and their supporters march through Walnut Grove on Day 22 of a 24-day “March for the Governor’s Signature” on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, to convince Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign Assembly Bill 2183, the Agricultural Labor Relations Voting Choice Act. The march started in the Central Valley and will conclude with a rally in Sacramento on Aug. 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She focuses on the lesser-known Filipino leaders of the movement, including Larry Itliong and Philip Vera Cruz, as well as the contributions of women like Huerta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Filipino farmworkers formed AWOC [the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee] and started staging resistance movements and protests before Latino groups,” she said. “If it wasn’t for those Filipino farmworkers, it wouldn’t have galvanized and they wouldn’t have worked together and helped the Latino farmworkers form the United Farm Workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Aguirre plans to include the allegations against Chavez as another part of the movement’s complex history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearing Dolores Huerta saying, ‘He assaulted me, but I felt like I couldn’t say anything because it would be bad for the movement,’ I think that is an important lesson,” Aguirre said. “It is important for students to know and be able to speak out when things are wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How to address a delicate subject?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Integrating the revelations into class won’t look the same for all grade levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ko said that with his high schoolers, he pointed out that Chavez is accused of targeting young girls, but he referred his students to \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and other trusted news sources if they wanted to read specifics, to avoid sharing information that could be unnecessarily triggering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to addressing the allegations with younger students, Aguirre said, “there are developmentally appropriate ways for teachers to acknowledge and to talk about it.”[aside postID=news_12077789 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/049_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022_qed.jpg']“It’s fair to say something like, ‘A man that we learned about, who we celebrate and we learned about in history, we found out that he hurt people,’” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the state will offer guidance for teachers to address the revelations isn’t yet known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education’s history and social science framework suggests teaching about his legacy in fourth, ninth and 11th grades, along with the plans for César Chavez Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, after the state Legislature passed a resolution to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077691/california-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-rename-cesar-chavez-day-following-sexual-abuse-allegations\">rename the March 31 holiday\u003c/a> Farmworkers Day, the Department of Education put a pop-up advisory on its pages of Chavez curriculum and teaching materials, telling educators to “focus on the movement as a struggle that is greater than one man.” It also compiled a new page of teaching resources on the broader movement under a “Farmworkers Day” page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department did not respond to requests for comment about whether it plans to alter or remove any of its model curriculum dedicated to Chavez, or add lessons about the new allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Aguirre said it will be up to teachers to evolve with the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New information came out, and it’s our responsibility as historians, as educators, to take that new information and change what we teach and we know,” she said. “You’re not erasing a history; it’s just history is maybe just more complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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In the past, he would ask his classes what they knew about César Chavez Day and teach them about Chavez’s roles in the Delano grape strike and the founding of the United Farm Workers labor union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12005220 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/WashingtonHighSchoolGetty1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Washington High School on March 30, 2020, in San Francisco, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, he said, that lesson plan will be more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the holiday, which falls during the San Francisco Unified School District’s spring break, Ko last week gave a broad overview of the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>’ investigation. He also pointed out that the state has already renamed its holiday to Farmworkers Day, and that cities and institutions are moving to swiftly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\">scrub his name\u003c/a> from streets, parks and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez is prevalent in California’s curriculum frameworks and model lesson plans, and the state provides a long list of activities and resources for every grade level framed around César Chavez Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ko said he didn’t have to throw his existing curriculum out the window last week; he’s never portrayed Chavez as solely a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">“hero” in the farmworker movement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s people who have done remarkable, amazing accomplishments in advancing people’s rights, and also, even before the most recent allegations, it’s also possible for those same people to have harmful ideas,” Ko told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A complex legacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For years, Ko’s classes have studied the more nuanced parts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077230/californias-political-reckoning-with-cesar-chavezs-legacy-after-allegations\">Chavez’s legacy\u003c/a>, such as his opposition to undocumented immigrants working on farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least in San Francisco, many educators have shifted their focus away from Chavez when they cover the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students are often taught, ‘This one great man who was so exceptional, did all these amazing things and they are the reason that these rights happened,’” ethnic studies teacher Samantha Aguirre said. “What they don’t always learn is that it was hundreds, tens of thousands of people behind them in the movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/038_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/038_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/038_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/038_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">United Farm Workers and their supporters march through Walnut Grove on Day 22 of a 24-day “March for the Governor’s Signature” on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, to convince Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign Assembly Bill 2183, the Agricultural Labor Relations Voting Choice Act. The march started in the Central Valley and will conclude with a rally in Sacramento on Aug. 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She focuses on the lesser-known Filipino leaders of the movement, including Larry Itliong and Philip Vera Cruz, as well as the contributions of women like Huerta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Filipino farmworkers formed AWOC [the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee] and started staging resistance movements and protests before Latino groups,” she said. “If it wasn’t for those Filipino farmworkers, it wouldn’t have galvanized and they wouldn’t have worked together and helped the Latino farmworkers form the United Farm Workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Aguirre plans to include the allegations against Chavez as another part of the movement’s complex history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hearing Dolores Huerta saying, ‘He assaulted me, but I felt like I couldn’t say anything because it would be bad for the movement,’ I think that is an important lesson,” Aguirre said. “It is important for students to know and be able to speak out when things are wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How to address a delicate subject?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Integrating the revelations into class won’t look the same for all grade levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ko said that with his high schoolers, he pointed out that Chavez is accused of targeting young girls, but he referred his students to \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and other trusted news sources if they wanted to read specifics, to avoid sharing information that could be unnecessarily triggering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to addressing the allegations with younger students, Aguirre said, “there are developmentally appropriate ways for teachers to acknowledge and to talk about it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s fair to say something like, ‘A man that we learned about, who we celebrate and we learned about in history, we found out that he hurt people,’” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the state will offer guidance for teachers to address the revelations isn’t yet known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Education’s history and social science framework suggests teaching about his legacy in fourth, ninth and 11th grades, along with the plans for César Chavez Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, after the state Legislature passed a resolution to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077691/california-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-rename-cesar-chavez-day-following-sexual-abuse-allegations\">rename the March 31 holiday\u003c/a> Farmworkers Day, the Department of Education put a pop-up advisory on its pages of Chavez curriculum and teaching materials, telling educators to “focus on the movement as a struggle that is greater than one man.” It also compiled a new page of teaching resources on the broader movement under a “Farmworkers Day” page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department did not respond to requests for comment about whether it plans to alter or remove any of its model curriculum dedicated to Chavez, or add lessons about the new allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Aguirre said it will be up to teachers to evolve with the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New information came out, and it’s our responsibility as historians, as educators, to take that new information and change what we teach and we know,” she said. “You’re not erasing a history; it’s just history is maybe just more complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Reading about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cesar-chavez\">Cesar Chavez\u003c/a> inspired Rosalinda Guillen to organize strawberry pickers in Salinas with the union he co-founded, the United Farm Workers, in the 1990s, after the late labor leader had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as California has renamed Cesar Chavez Day — observed annually on March 31 — as Farmworkers Day — and begins \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\">reconsidering how it honors\u003c/a> the civil rights icon, advocates like Guillen are confronting a deeper question: What happens to the farmworker movement when its most recognizable figure becomes a source of pain and controversy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillen, 74, is worried the shattering of Chavez’s image by rape allegations \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">could demoralize organizers\u003c/a> and provide ammunition to agricultural corporations opposing raising wages for some of the nation’s lowest-paid laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Organizing for the rights of farmworkers anywhere in this country is one of the heaviest lifts that there is,” said Guillen, a former berry picker herself who \u003ca href=\"https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/guillen.htm\">helped reach\u003c/a> Washington state’s first union contract covering agricultural workers at a large winery in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any type of benefit that we fight for or organize for, the pushback from the industry is just huge,” she said. “There’s such a huge power imbalance that everything matters for us as we continue to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newly surfaced sexual abuse allegations against Chavez are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076859/california-reacts-to-shocking-cesar-chavez-sexual-misconduct-revelations\">reverberating across California\u003c/a> and beyond, fueling a reckoning within farmworker communities while raising concerns among organizers that fallout could weaken already fragile efforts to build worker power, influence policy and protect some of the country’s most vulnerable laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-515109272-scaled-e1773940356467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1443\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farm labor leader Cesar Chavez pickets outside the San Diego-area headquarters of Safeway markets. It was in protest over the arrest of 29 persons at a Delano, California, Safeway. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The allegations that Chavez sexually abused UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta and underage girls decades ago unleashed grief and soul-searching among advocates. Across California, labor leaders and elected officials have emphasized that the movement must extend beyond any one individual, even as they grapple with the emotional toll of the revelations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One week after the allegations were made public by the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, California lawmakers voted unanimously to rename a March 31 holiday on Chavez’s birthday as Farmworker Day, a move intended to shift recognition to the broader workforce rather than a single leader. Community leaders planned to remove Chavez’s likeness from school murals, statues and other public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many farmworkers, the emotional impact has been disorienting. Some described learning about the allegations through word of mouth, social media or conversations at work, struggling to reconcile admiration for Chavez as an organizer with anger and sadness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to harm us,” UFW member Maria Garcia Hernández said in Spanish, a Tulare County resident.[aside postID=news_12077073 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2.jpg']The 52-year-old weighed whether the union would lose any influence in Sacramento or the rural communities where it operates, an open question. She worried about encountering antagonism or even aggression when volunteering as a union canvasser in Republican areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could undermine the politicians we support — for whom we go door-to-door for, so they can hold office and represent us,” said Garcia Hernández, a farmworker for more than 30 years. “Now, people won’t want to accept us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reckoning comes as the U.S. Department of Labor issued a rule to make it cheaper for employers to hire seasonal foreign agricultural workers through H-2A visas — a policy the Economic Policy Institute \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/blog/trumps-new-h-2a-wage-rule-will-radically-cut-the-wages-of-all-farmworkers-new-estimates-show-farmworkers-stand-to-lose-4-4-to-5-4-billion-annually-under-dols-updated-adverse-effec/\">estimates\u003c/a> could drive down wages for farmworkers nationwide by more than $4.4 billion annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has also signaled plans to ramp up deportations in a workforce where about half are undocumented, leaving many vulnerable to exploitation and reluctant to challenge employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a legitimate concern for a lot of folks to wonder what happens now,” said Eladio Bobadilla, a historian at the University of Pittsburgh who studies U.S. social movements. “How these particular revelations will impact people on the ground, the ordinary farm workers who are trying to find themselves in a better economic and social position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historian, who grew up with farmworker parents in Delano, the former UFW headquarters in the 1960s, said there were problems in how Chavez’s leadership was widely remembered and celebrated, even before the new accusations came to light. Chavez ran the union autocratically, purging critics and surrounding himself with loyalists, which weakened a movement that gave him too much power, Bobadilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076930\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians walk past César Chávez Elementary School on March 18, 2026, in San Francisco, California. Labor activist César Chávez has been accused in an investigation of sexual abuse of women and minors. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One crack in the movement was Chavez’s hostility toward undocumented immigrants, whom he considered strikebreakers. Under his reign, the UFW harassed, beat and reported undocumented people to immigration authorities in the 1970s, Bobadilla said. His forthcoming book explores nativism debates through the eyes of Latinos. Later, the UFW and Huerta emerged as strong advocates for immigrant rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be essential to decouple the farm workers’ struggle from this one man,” he said. “How the union and how activists choose to do that, I don’t know, but I think it will be essential to really untangle themselves from this one person, something that should have been done decades ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1930s, federal law has excluded agricultural workers from many protections afforded to other workers, including overtime pay and collective bargaining rights. Even in California, which expanded farmworkers’ rights, field crop laborers still often face deep poverty, wage theft by employers and dangerous working conditions, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897789/california-largely-failed-to-enforce-worker-smoke-protections-under-bidens-new-osha-pick\">wildfire smoke\u003c/a> and extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agricultural workers are \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4657558/#:~:text=Table%20II,13%20times%20the%20risk\">far more likely to die\u003c/a> from heat-related illness than workers in other industries, and the U.S. still lacks federal regulations requiring employers to protect workers from heat hazards.[aside postID=news_12077059 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg']Today, most of the nation’s 2.2 million farmworkers are not unionized. The UFW counts about 10,000 members in California, Oregon, Washington and New York, a fraction of the roughly 60,000 in its heyday during the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond organizing, the UFW helped build a broader civil rights movement that trained generations of community activists, said Oliver Rosales, a historian at Bakersfield College in Delano. At its peak in the 1960s, the Delano grape boycott drew participation from an estimated 14 to 17 million Americans, reflecting the nationwide impact of the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like the heart and soul of the Mexican-American civil rights movement,” Rosales said. “The farm worker movement ultimately, despite its long-run failures to organize farm workers within the union, inspired activism all across and well beyond the fields. That, to me, is its ultimate legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UFW continues to fight well-resourced grower associations, sometimes successfully, said Daniel Costa, who directs immigration policy at the Economic Policy Institute and co-authored the H-2A wage rule analysis. The UFW helped beat a similar pay-cut policy during the first Trump administration, he added, which helped hundreds of thousands of agricultural workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are punching above their weight for sure,” Costa said. “They’ve been able to leverage the attention that they’ve gotten over the years to really make a big impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Romero, the first female UFW President, said she’s still grappling with the ramifications of the exposé about Chavez by \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> reporters, who signaled more women may come forward with additional accusations. The union is reviewing training and policies for its 55 staffers, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11941675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Romero, President of the United Farm Workers union, speaks to marchers in Walnut Grove, Calif., before setting out on Day 22 of a 24-day “March for the Governor’s Signature” on Aug. 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But controversy or not, politicians who support farmworkers understand their plight remains dire, she said, and just as important as it was three decades ago, when Chavez died. Strong opposition to the union is part of its history, she noted, just like the allegations against Chavez now are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never depended on growers appreciating their workforce and treating them with respect and dignity and paying them fairly. That’s why we exist,” Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union continues to organize workers and push for labor protections, including collective bargaining rights and safeguards against extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California replacing a holiday bearing Chavez’s name with one honoring farmworkers, Romero said the focus must stay on those still laboring in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It saddens me to know what happened with our founder, but it hasn’t changed my commitment or my understanding of who I serve, and that is farmworkers,” Romero said. “I don’t serve our history or Cesar Chavez.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Today, most of the nation’s 2.2 million farmworkers are not unionized. The UFW counts about 10,000 members in California, Oregon, Washington and New York, a fraction of the roughly 60,000 in its heyday during the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond organizing, the UFW helped build a broader civil rights movement that trained generations of community activists, said Oliver Rosales, a historian at Bakersfield College in Delano. At its peak in the 1960s, the Delano grape boycott drew participation from an estimated 14 to 17 million Americans, reflecting the nationwide impact of the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like the heart and soul of the Mexican-American civil rights movement,” Rosales said. “The farm worker movement ultimately, despite its long-run failures to organize farm workers within the union, inspired activism all across and well beyond the fields. That, to me, is its ultimate legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UFW continues to fight well-resourced grower associations, sometimes successfully, said Daniel Costa, who directs immigration policy at the Economic Policy Institute and co-authored the H-2A wage rule analysis. The UFW helped beat a similar pay-cut policy during the first Trump administration, he added, which helped hundreds of thousands of agricultural workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are punching above their weight for sure,” Costa said. “They’ve been able to leverage the attention that they’ve gotten over the years to really make a big impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Romero, the first female UFW President, said she’s still grappling with the ramifications of the exposé about Chavez by \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> reporters, who signaled more women may come forward with additional accusations. The union is reviewing training and policies for its 55 staffers, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11941675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Romero, President of the United Farm Workers union, speaks to marchers in Walnut Grove, Calif., before setting out on Day 22 of a 24-day “March for the Governor’s Signature” on Aug. 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But controversy or not, politicians who support farmworkers understand their plight remains dire, she said, and just as important as it was three decades ago, when Chavez died. Strong opposition to the union is part of its history, she noted, just like the allegations against Chavez now are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never depended on growers appreciating their workforce and treating them with respect and dignity and paying them fairly. That’s why we exist,” Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union continues to organize workers and push for labor protections, including collective bargaining rights and safeguards against extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California replacing a holiday bearing Chavez’s name with one honoring farmworkers, Romero said the focus must stay on those still laboring in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It saddens me to know what happened with our founder, but it hasn’t changed my commitment or my understanding of who I serve, and that is farmworkers,” Romero said. “I don’t serve our history or Cesar Chavez.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California lawmakers voted Thursday to rename \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cesar-chavez\">Cesar Chavez\u003c/a> Day as Farmworkers Day in an effort to reconcile the Latino labor icon’s legacy with explosive sexual abuse allegations before the state holiday on March 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to quickly sign the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change comes after allegations became public last week that Chavez had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">sexually abused girls and women\u003c/a> during his days building a major farmworker labor rights movement in the 1960s in California’s agricultural heartland. Among those who accused him was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dolores-huerta\">Dolores Huerta\u003c/a>, who co-led the movement that eventually became the United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s effort to rename the holiday is part of a wave of other moves to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\"> alter memorials honoring the man\u003c/a> who, in the 1960s and 1970s, helped secure better wages and working conditions for farmworkers and had been admired by many Democratic leaders. The swift and sweeping effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077159/east-san-jose-leaders-call-for-supporting-survivors-after-cesar-chavez-allegations\">erase Chavez’s name from public\u003c/a> life was previously unthinkable, as his status had only grown more iconic since his death in 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Sen. Suzette Valladares said Thursday that her family built a life in California by working the fields and that the movement brought together workers from different backgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about one person. This is not about one narrative,” she said. “It’s about honoring generations of sacrifice, of resilience and hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street sign on Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limon said honoring farmworkers is especially important in the face of a series of federal raids across the state last year. A worker in her district \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/jaime-alanis-immigrant-farmworker-death-raid-c3c6f60a087f5f9f1d2b053fcef35b57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died after being chased\u003c/a> by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last summer, Limon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His death is a reminder of how much farmworkers risk every day to put food on our table,” she said before the vote. “Our farmworkers remind us that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was the first state to designate Chavez’s birthday, March 31, as a holiday to honor the civil rights leader nearly 30 years ago. The Legislature then, in 2000, passed a bill to make it an official paid day off for state employees and require that students learn about his legacy and his role in the labor movement in California. The legislation passed Thursday didn’t address the curriculum requirement. State leaders said they’re in conversation with school officials to adjust lesson plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California bill also passed in the Assembly with bipartisan support on Monday.[aside postID=news_12077073 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2.jpg']“We cannot ignore wrongdoing and we should not continue to celebrate a single person when the movement itself is so much bigger,” Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry said before the vote Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the allegations came to light, California State University, Fresno, has covered up Chavez’s statue on campus, while cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento have taken steps to erase his name from public landmarks. Some advocated for Huerta’s name to replace Chavez’s, and several states already said they won’t observe the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As his birthday approaches, cities across the country have remade or canceled annual celebrations to honor him. In Tucson last weekend, the annual Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta March and Rally were scaled back and rebranded. There was no march or car show, and it was billed instead as the Comunidad y Labor Unity Fair to focus more broadly on labor rights without mentioning Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Grand Junction, Colorado, the organizers of the annual event in Mesa County had already printed flyers and T-shirts, all bearing Chavez’s name. There has been a flurry of social media posts in recent days to let people know the event will go on Saturday as the Sí, Se Puede Celebration instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In El Paso, Texas, March 31 will be celebrated as the Community and Labor Heritage Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Susan Montoya Bryan contributed from Albuquerque, New Mexico.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Esta mujer de 52 años, que vive en el condado de Tulare, afirmó que tanto ella como sus padres se beneficiaron del activismo de Chávez, quien apoyó la última gran ley de reforma migratoria que se adoptó en la década de 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todavía no me lo puedo creer del todo, que una persona tan valiente que luchó por todos nosotros para garantizar que pudiéramos tener sombra, agua, baños limpios y mejores condiciones laborales, que una persona tan dedicada al pueblo… pudiera hacer algo así”, afirmó García, que se dedica a sembrar y cosechar plantas en un trabajo representado por el Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas (o UFW por sus siglas en inglés), el sindicato que Chávez y Dolores Huerta establecieron juntos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, que ahora tiene 95 años, reveló por primera vez públicamente que Chávez la manipuló para mantener relaciones sexuales con ella y la violó en la década de 1960, y declaró al \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> que ambos encuentros la dejaron embarazada. La investigación de varios años del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">publicada el 18 de marzo\u003c/a>, también detalla las acusaciones de dos mujeres, hijas de organizadores sindicales, que afirmaron que Chávez las abusó sexualmente cuando eran niñas en la década de 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077475\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cuando Rolando Hernández se enteró por primera vez de las acusaciones a través de sus compañeros de trabajo durante una reunión de formación laboral, el extrabajador agrícola se quedó desconcertado. Pensó que la conversación debía de referirse a otra persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disculpen, pero ¿de qué César Chávez están hablando?”, preguntó Hernández, de 33 años, en la reunión. “Porque yo solo sé de un César Chávez que luchó por los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas para que se les pagaran mejores salarios y hubiese menos injusticias en los campos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ese mismo”, fue la respuesta, lo que dejó a Hernández sin palabras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fue un golpe muy duro”, dijo Hernández, quien trabaja para organización sin fines de lucro para trabajadores agrícolas con sede en Fresno. Él comenzó a cosechar chiles en Arizona a los 14 años de edad antes de trabajar con viñedos y naranjales en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La reacción a las revelaciones \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077336/como-reacciono-california-a-las-acusaciones-de-supuesta-conducta-sexual-inapropiada-de-cesar-chavez\">fue casi inmediata\u003c/a>. Los legisladores de California planean cambiar el nombre de la festividad estatal dedicada a Chávez por el de “Día de los Trabajadores Agrícolas”. Ciudades, estados y organizaciones, incluida la UFW, tomaron medidas para posponer o cancelar las celebraciones previstas para el 31 de marzo en honor al cumpleaños del líder sindical mexicano-estadounidense. Las autoridades están considerando \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\">cambiar el nombre de calles\u003c/a>, parques, bibliotecas, escuelas y otros edificios que llevan el nombre de Chávez.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']Durante décadas, la colaboración entre Chávez y Huerta para promover los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas se ha conmemorado en libros de texto infantiles, biografías, películas y desfiles. Ahora, varias madres, García entre ellas, se sienten por la falta de medidas para prevenir y responder a las presuntas agresiones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo siento mucho por ellas. Lo que les ha pasado me duele en lo más profundo del alma” dijo García. “Si es verdad lo que pasó, ¿por qué no se habló hace mucho tiempo? ¿Por qué hasta ahora?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chávez falleció en 1993. Huerta dijo que guardó silencio durante 60 años porque temía dañar la reputación de un hombre que se convirtió en el rostro del movimiento por los derechos civiles de los mexicoamericanos, conocido por los boicots, las marchas y las huelgas a nivel nacional que lograron avances significativos para miles de trabajadores agrícolas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guardé este secreto durante tanto tiempo porque construir el movimiento y garantizar los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas ha sido el trabajo de mi vida”, dijo Huerta en un comunicado tras la publicación de la investigación del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. “Nunca me he identificado como víctima, pero ahora entiendo que soy una víctimas: de la violencia, del abuso sexual, de hombres dominantes que me veían a mí, y a otras mujeres, como propiedad o como objetos que controlar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Gallegos, cuyas experiencias de niña acompañando a sus padres a los mítines y marchas de la UFW la inspiraron a convertirse en defensora de los trabajadores agrícolas, afirmó sentirse devastada por las revelaciones. Gallegos, que actualmente es directora del Centro Legal TODEC, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a los inmigrantes y trabajadores agrícolas en la región de Inland Empire y el Valle de Coachella, elogió la valentía de Huerta y del resto de las víctimas que cargaron con su dolor antes de decidir hablar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nos solidarizamos con nuestra compañera Dolores Huerta y a las víctimas. Lo que se ha revelado es muy doloroso y profundamente perturbador”, dijo Gallegos, con la voz entrecortada. “Sabemos de primera mano que el silencio nunca ha protegido a nuestras comunidades de trabajadores agrícolas, y ningún movimiento ni la justicia pueden pedir a la gente que guarde silencio ante los abusos, nunca lo han hecho y nunca lo harán”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077476\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un huerto de mandarinos al oeste de Fresno, California, el 21 de marzo de 2017. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ella, al igual que otras personas que hablaron con KQED horas después de conocer la noticia, afirmó que quieren que este momento de rendición de cuentas contribuya a evitar abusos similares en el futuro. Esperan que las acusaciones contra Chávez no socaven los logros del movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas en su conjunto, construidos por muchos trabajadores y sus familias a lo largo de décadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En este momento, estamos sumidos en el dolor. Siento un gran dolor en el pecho, en la mente, en el corazón”, dijo Gallegos. “Al mismo tiempo, es una reflexión de que no podemos quedarnos callados, no podemos dejar que nuestro movimiento termine…asegurando a nuestra comunidad que su voz importa y que nadie debería soportar ningún tipo de abuso”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García, que empezó a acompañar a sus padres a trabajar en la agricultura desde los 10 años de edad, dijo que el acoso sexual por parte de los contratistas y supervisores agrícolas era algo frecuente. Según contó, la despidieron de varios trabajos como represalia por no aceptar las insinuaciones de los hombres. Sin embargo, afiliarse a la UFW le ayudó a mejorar sus condiciones laborales y a sentirse respaldada para quejarse si surgían problemas, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077477\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García afirmó que, si algún miembro del sindicato o cualquier otra persona tenía conocimiento de las acusaciones contra Chávez y no las investigó o bien ignoró deliberadamente a las víctimas menores de edad, eso debería tener consecuencias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si esas personas siguen por ahí, si siguen con vida, entonces deben rendir cuentas”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuera de un tribunal de Fresno, la presidenta del sindicato, Teresa Romero, pidió al público que respetara la privacidad de las víctimas que se atrevieron a denunciar, según \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/cesar-chavez-ufw-romero/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No aprobamos las acciones de César Chávez”, dijo Romero. “Está mal”.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Huerta dijo que guardó silencio durante 60 años porque temía dañar la reputación de un hombre que se convirtió en el rostro del movimiento por los derechos civiles de los mexicoamericanos, conocido por los boicots, las marchas y las huelgas a nivel nacional que lograron avances significativos para miles de trabajadores agrícolas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guardé este secreto durante tanto tiempo porque construir el movimiento y garantizar los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas ha sido el trabajo de mi vida”, dijo Huerta en un comunicado tras la publicación de la investigación del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. “Nunca me he identificado como víctima, pero ahora entiendo que soy una víctimas: de la violencia, del abuso sexual, de hombres dominantes que me veían a mí, y a otras mujeres, como propiedad o como objetos que controlar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Gallegos, cuyas experiencias de niña acompañando a sus padres a los mítines y marchas de la UFW la inspiraron a convertirse en defensora de los trabajadores agrícolas, afirmó sentirse devastada por las revelaciones. Gallegos, que actualmente es directora del Centro Legal TODEC, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a los inmigrantes y trabajadores agrícolas en la región de Inland Empire y el Valle de Coachella, elogió la valentía de Huerta y del resto de las víctimas que cargaron con su dolor antes de decidir hablar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nos solidarizamos con nuestra compañera Dolores Huerta y a las víctimas. Lo que se ha revelado es muy doloroso y profundamente perturbador”, dijo Gallegos, con la voz entrecortada. “Sabemos de primera mano que el silencio nunca ha protegido a nuestras comunidades de trabajadores agrícolas, y ningún movimiento ni la justicia pueden pedir a la gente que guarde silencio ante los abusos, nunca lo han hecho y nunca lo harán”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077476\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un huerto de mandarinos al oeste de Fresno, California, el 21 de marzo de 2017. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ella, al igual que otras personas que hablaron con KQED horas después de conocer la noticia, afirmó que quieren que este momento de rendición de cuentas contribuya a evitar abusos similares en el futuro. Esperan que las acusaciones contra Chávez no socaven los logros del movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas en su conjunto, construidos por muchos trabajadores y sus familias a lo largo de décadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En este momento, estamos sumidos en el dolor. Siento un gran dolor en el pecho, en la mente, en el corazón”, dijo Gallegos. “Al mismo tiempo, es una reflexión de que no podemos quedarnos callados, no podemos dejar que nuestro movimiento termine…asegurando a nuestra comunidad que su voz importa y que nadie debería soportar ningún tipo de abuso”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García, que empezó a acompañar a sus padres a trabajar en la agricultura desde los 10 años de edad, dijo que el acoso sexual por parte de los contratistas y supervisores agrícolas era algo frecuente. Según contó, la despidieron de varios trabajos como represalia por no aceptar las insinuaciones de los hombres. Sin embargo, afiliarse a la UFW le ayudó a mejorar sus condiciones laborales y a sentirse respaldada para quejarse si surgían problemas, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077477\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García afirmó que, si algún miembro del sindicato o cualquier otra persona tenía conocimiento de las acusaciones contra Chávez y no las investigó o bien ignoró deliberadamente a las víctimas menores de edad, eso debería tener consecuencias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si esas personas siguen por ahí, si siguen con vida, entonces deben rendir cuentas”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuera de un tribunal de Fresno, la presidenta del sindicato, Teresa Romero, pidió al público que respetara la privacidad de las víctimas que se atrevieron a denunciar, según \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/cesar-chavez-ufw-romero/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No aprobamos las acciones de César Chávez”, dijo Romero. “Está mal”.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076859/california-reacts-to-shocking-cesar-chavez-sexual-misconduct-revelations\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las acusaciones de \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076825/unspecified-allegations-prompt-cancellation-of-cesar-chavez-celebrations\">conducta sexual inapropiada\u003c/a> contra el ícono sindical \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cesar-chavez\">César Chávez\u003c/a> están causando una gran conmoción en California, donde el fundador del movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas ha sido venerado durante décadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las acusaciones, que salieron a la luz en una investigación del periódico \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> publicada el 18 de marzo, acusan a Chávez de un patrón de conducta sexual inapropiada contra niñas y mujeres que trabajaron junto a él en el movimiento por los derechos civiles de los latinos en las décadas de 1960 y 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dos mujeres, ambas de 66 años en la actualidad, contaron \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-assault-allegations-takeaways.html\">al periódico\u003c/a> que habían sido agredidas repetidamente por Chávez durante años en la década de 1970, cuando ellas tenían 12 y 13 años respectivamente, y él más de 40. La investigación también detalla las acusaciones formuladas contra Chávez por otras mujeres, entre ellas \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054312/dolores-huerta-on-the-state-of-workers-rights-in-california\">Dolores Huerta\u003c/a>, la cofundadora de la Unión de Campesinos (o UFW en inglés). Huerta reveló que Chávez la violó y la presionó para que mantuviera relaciones sexuales en dos ocasiones distintas en la década de 1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La noticia ha suscitado una amplia reacción entre los líderes sindicales y políticos de toda el Área de Bahía, donde el nombre de Chávez figura en escuelas, calles y parques. Chávez inició su carrera como activista comunitario en San José e impulsó huelgas de campesinos por toda California, el primer estado en celebrar el Día de César Chávez el 31 de marzo de 2000.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n“Estoy enojado. Estoy perturbado. Y estoy pensando en lo que se tiene que hacer en este momento”, declaró Rudy González, miembro del comité ejecutivo del Consejo Laboral de San Francisco, la semana pasada, cuando empezaron a circular rumores sobre las acusaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El día antes de que se publicara la investigación del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, la Unión de Campesinos anunció que cancelaría todas las actividades previstas para celebrar el Día de César Chávez, el 31 de marzo, a raíz de las “acusaciones de comportamiento abusivo”. La Fundación César Chávez también informó que había tenido conocimiento de “acusaciones alarmantes”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Una estatua de César E. Chávez se alza mientras los miembros del comité conmemorativo del Valle de San Fernando celebran el Día de César Chávez el 31 de marzo de 2021, en San Fernando, California. Chávez era conocido por emplear medios no violentos para conseguir mejores condiciones laborales para miles de trabajadores agrícolas que sufrían salarios bajos y condiciones de trabajo muy duras. En 1962, fundó la Asociación Nacional de Trabajadores Agrícolas, que más tarde se convirtió en Unión de Campesinos. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP vía Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Como líder sindical mexicano-estadounidense, crecí con la historia del movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas: sobre el sacrificio, la fe y la convicción de que los trabajadores merecen dignidad”, dijo González.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero permítanme ser claro: nuestro movimiento nunca ha girado en torno a un solo hombre”, continuó. “Siempre ha girado en torno a los trabajadores filipinos, mexicanos, afroestadounidenses e inmigrantes, que se unen y exigen respeto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varias organizaciones ya anunciaron que cancelarán o evaluarán los actos previstos en honor a Chávez en San José, incluida una cena conmemorativa y varios eventos programados en el centro de acción comunitaria César E. Chávez de la Universidad Estatal de San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El alcalde de San José Matt Mahan anunció que la ciudad cancelaba todos los actos previstos relacionados con el día festivo estatal y que su equipo “buscará formas de honrar el legado del movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas sin celebrar a personas que causaron un daño tan profundo a la comunidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reconocemos que los vínculos de Chávez con San José conllevan la responsabilidad de no causar más trauma a las víctimas”, declaró en un comunicado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El condado de Contra Costa también indicó que estaba “revisando los detalles” de su celebración anual prevista para el próximo mes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Siguiendo el ejemplo del Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas, el condado de Contra Costa sigue enfocado en apoyar a los trabajadores agrícolas y en promover la equidad, la seguridad y las oportunidades en la agricultura”, declaró la portavoz Kristi Jourdan por correo electrónico. “Nuestro objetivo es garantizar que este evento sea un homenaje a los trabajadores agrícolas, ponga de relieve cuestiones urgentes como los salarios justos y las condiciones de trabajo seguras, y refleje nuestros valores compartidos de dignidad e inclusión”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Caucus Hispano del Congreso afirmó que este año rendirá homenaje a los trabajadores agrícolas y a su “arduo y esencial trabajo” el 31 de marzo, fecha reconocida a nivel nacional como el Día de César Chávez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No podemos celebrar a un hombre, independientemente de sus logros, si ha hecho daño a mujeres y niños de formas tan viles”, declaró el Caucus en un comunicado. “Aunque es desgarrador que se revele que los líderes tienen defectos imperdonables, una sociedad justa tiene el deber de exigir que se responsabilice a los abusadores sin excepción”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Un movimiento se sustenta en sus valores, no en la mala conducta de un individuo”, continuó. Los organizadores del desfile y festival anual del Día de César Chávez y Dolores Huerta de San Francisco anunciaron que el evento pasaría a llamarse sólo en honor a Huerta, cuyo cumpleaños es el 10 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“¡Viva la causa! Apoya el movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas”, dijo Eva Royale en un correo electrónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La investigación publicada la semana pasada incluye acusaciones de al menos una docena de mujeres que afirman haber sido \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-assault-allegations-takeaways.html\">perseguidas, acosadas o agredidas\u003c/a> por Chávez cuando este se encontraba en la cima de su carrera, entre ellas Ana Murguía, quien declaró al\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em> que fue convocada por primera vez a la oficina de Chávez cuando tenía 13 años y vivía con su familia en La Paz. Afirmó que, durante los cuatro años siguientes, mantuvo docenas de encuentros sexuales con él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Debra Rojas declaró a The Times que tenía 12 años cuando Chávez la tocó de forma inapropiada por primera vez, y que, cuando tenía 15, él la violó en un motel durante la Marcha de las mil Millas de la UFW en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, cofundadora de la UFW junto a Chávez y su estrecha aliada al frente del Movimiento de Trabajadores Agrícolas, declaró en un \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555\">comunicado\u003c/a> que tuvo dos encuentros sexuales no consensuados con Chávez en la década de 1960, ambos resultando en embarazos que ocultó al público.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta afirmó que no había hablado de sus experiencias durante los últimos 60 años porque “creía que revelar la verdad perjudicaría al movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas por el que he luchado toda mi vida”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuento mi historia porque \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> ha indicado que no fui la única, que hubo otras”, dijo Huerta. “Saber que él hizo daño a chicas jóvenes me repugna. Me duele el corazón por todas las que sufrieron solas y en silencio durante años. No hay palabras lo suficientemente fuertes para condenar esas acciones deplorables que él cometió. Las acciones de César no reflejan los valores de nuestra comunidad y nuestro movimiento”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077340\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1070\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retrato de la activista sindical Dolores Huerta, cofundadora de la Unión de Campesinos (o UFW en inglés) (conocida en inglés como UFW), con una bandera sindical en la que se lee “Viva La Causa”, hacia la década de 1970. \u003ccite>(Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El día que se publicó la investigación, muchos en el distrito de la Misión de San Francisco aún se estaban enterando de las acusaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Hingel dijo que recuerda cuando la calle César Chávez pasó a llamarse así en 1995, sustituyendo a la calle Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Siempre lo consideré un pionero extraordinario”, declaró a KQED. “Me temo que estoy un poco desilusionado. He oído esta historia tantas veces sobre líderes carismáticos en el poder que abusan de las mujeres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es triste, y me lo creo”, dijo Sharon Garland. “Mi abuelo era campesino y abusó de mí cuando era niña… en aquella época no había muchas consecuencias y la gente no creía a las mujeres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María Menjibar dijo que recordaba el bien que hizo Chávez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para nosotros es un ídolo, alguien que lucha por todos los derechos”, dijo. “No puedo decir nada en su contra”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, presidente de la Comisión de servicios públicos de San Francisco, expresó su apoyo a Huerta.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']“Durante 60 años, llevó en silencio una dolorosa carga que sólo ella conocía, para que el movimiento que ayudó a construir y que ama profundamente pudiera continuar, sin saber hasta ahora que otras personas también habían sufrido daños”, escribió en una \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/josharcesf/posts/pfbid0CkDw4vRPd989iRGqj6KrzBjjpeoofF93PAxh7setcg8d7isyMVe4htfs8JzBzqNtl\">publicación en Facebook\u003c/a>. “Al romper ese silencio, Dolores habla no sólo por sí misma, sino por todas las mujeres y niñas que fueron heridas y obligadas a sufrir en soledad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En un comunicado, el presidente de la Asamblea de California, Robert Rivas, afirmó que su principal prioridad es escuchar a las víctimas, y añadió que “el movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas nunca ha girado en torno a un solo hombre”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es más grande que cualquier persona, y sus valores de dignidad y justicia son ahora más importantes que nunca”, escribió. “A quienes han encontrado el valor para dar un paso al frente, mi corazón está con ustedes”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Alex-Padilla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Alex-Padilla.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Alex-Padilla-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El senador Alex Padilla participa en una rueda de prensa celebrada en San Francisco el 1 de junio de 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El senador Alex Padilla, quien el año pasado propuso una ley para crear un parque nacional en honor a Chávez que abarcaría partes de California y Arizona, dijo que las revelaciones son “relatos desgarradores y horribles de abusos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Debe haber tolerancia cero con el abuso, la explotación y el acallamiento de las víctimas, independientemente de quiénes sean los implicados”, afirmó en un comunicado. Afrontar verdades dolorosas y garantizar la rendición de cuentas es esencial para honrar los valores que defiende el movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas en su conjunto, valores arraigados en la dignidad y la justicia para todos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La oficina de Padilla indicó que tiene previsto cambiar el nombre y reformular la legislación sobre el parque nacional para honrar a los trabajadores agrícolas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los hijos de Chávez también expresaron su apoyo a las víctimas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuestra familia está conmocionada y entristecida al conocer la noticia de que nuestro padre, César Chávez, cometió actos de conducta sexual inapropiada con mujeres y menores hace casi 50 años”, escribieron en un comunicado. “Como una familia comprometida con los valores de la equidad y la justicia, rendimos homenaje a las voces de quienes se sienten ignorados y dan a conocer los casos de abuso sexual”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Esto resulta muy doloroso para nuestra familia. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“Estoy enojado. Estoy perturbado. Y estoy pensando en lo que se tiene que hacer en este momento”, declaró Rudy González, miembro del comité ejecutivo del Consejo Laboral de San Francisco, la semana pasada, cuando empezaron a circular rumores sobre las acusaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El día antes de que se publicara la investigación del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, la Unión de Campesinos anunció que cancelaría todas las actividades previstas para celebrar el Día de César Chávez, el 31 de marzo, a raíz de las “acusaciones de comportamiento abusivo”. 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Chávez era conocido por emplear medios no violentos para conseguir mejores condiciones laborales para miles de trabajadores agrícolas que sufrían salarios bajos y condiciones de trabajo muy duras. En 1962, fundó la Asociación Nacional de Trabajadores Agrícolas, que más tarde se convirtió en Unión de Campesinos. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. 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Chávez de la Universidad Estatal de San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El alcalde de San José Matt Mahan anunció que la ciudad cancelaba todos los actos previstos relacionados con el día festivo estatal y que su equipo “buscará formas de honrar el legado del movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas sin celebrar a personas que causaron un daño tan profundo a la comunidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reconocemos que los vínculos de Chávez con San José conllevan la responsabilidad de no causar más trauma a las víctimas”, declaró en un comunicado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El condado de Contra Costa también indicó que estaba “revisando los detalles” de su celebración anual prevista para el próximo mes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Siguiendo el ejemplo del Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas, el condado de Contra Costa sigue enfocado en apoyar a los trabajadores agrícolas y en promover la equidad, la seguridad y las oportunidades en la agricultura”, declaró la portavoz Kristi Jourdan por correo electrónico. “Nuestro objetivo es garantizar que este evento sea un homenaje a los trabajadores agrícolas, ponga de relieve cuestiones urgentes como los salarios justos y las condiciones de trabajo seguras, y refleje nuestros valores compartidos de dignidad e inclusión”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Caucus Hispano del Congreso afirmó que este año rendirá homenaje a los trabajadores agrícolas y a su “arduo y esencial trabajo” el 31 de marzo, fecha reconocida a nivel nacional como el Día de César Chávez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No podemos celebrar a un hombre, independientemente de sus logros, si ha hecho daño a mujeres y niños de formas tan viles”, declaró el Caucus en un comunicado. “Aunque es desgarrador que se revele que los líderes tienen defectos imperdonables, una sociedad justa tiene el deber de exigir que se responsabilice a los abusadores sin excepción”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Un movimiento se sustenta en sus valores, no en la mala conducta de un individuo”, continuó. 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Afirmó que, durante los cuatro años siguientes, mantuvo docenas de encuentros sexuales con él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Debra Rojas declaró a The Times que tenía 12 años cuando Chávez la tocó de forma inapropiada por primera vez, y que, cuando tenía 15, él la violó en un motel durante la Marcha de las mil Millas de la UFW en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, cofundadora de la UFW junto a Chávez y su estrecha aliada al frente del Movimiento de Trabajadores Agrícolas, declaró en un \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555\">comunicado\u003c/a> que tuvo dos encuentros sexuales no consensuados con Chávez en la década de 1960, ambos resultando en embarazos que ocultó al público.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta afirmó que no había hablado de sus experiencias durante los últimos 60 años porque “creía que revelar la verdad perjudicaría al movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas por el que he luchado toda mi vida”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuento mi historia porque \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> ha indicado que no fui la única, que hubo otras”, dijo Huerta. “Saber que él hizo daño a chicas jóvenes me repugna. Me duele el corazón por todas las que sufrieron solas y en silencio durante años. No hay palabras lo suficientemente fuertes para condenar esas acciones deplorables que él cometió. 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Because we don’t have the luxury of distancing ourselves from it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition, including several organizations that make up a group known as the Sí Se Puede Collective — which borrows the powerful organizing slogan originating with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077151/farmworker-activists-reflect-on-legacy-of-civil-rights-icon\">the farmworker movement\u003c/a> and Dolores Huerta — said communities must actively work to create spaces and cultures where no one is above accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign featuring an image of Cesar Chavez and information about his connection to Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San José is seen leaning against a wall in an office at the plaza on March 19, 2026. The sign was removed from a memorial walkway this week after sexual abuse allegations were revealed against the late labor leader. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a moment of responsibility,” said Adriana Caldera Boroffice, the CEO of YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley. “A responsibility to listen without defensiveness, to resist the instinct to protect reputations over people, to challenge the systems that have allowed harm to go unaddressed and to stand firmly on the side of those who have carried these truths for far too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Chavez and helped lead and organize its many historic actions and protests, said Chavez pressured her into sex and raped her in the 1960s, resulting in two pregnancies, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> investigation\u003c/a> published this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also contained allegations against Chavez from two women who said they were young teenagers when he sexually abused them over a period of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077200 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colsaria Henderson, executive director of Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, is seen during a community gathering at Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San José on Thursday, March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Colsaria Henderson, executive director of Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence in San José, said movements that shape history, like the farmworker movement, are not perfect and their leaders are not infallible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are often told to choose between honoring a movement and confronting its flaws, but that is a false choice. We can do both. We can recognize the good that was done while refusing to excuse the harm that occurred. We can hold complexity without losing our moral clarity. In fact, this is how movements grow stronger,” Henderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the heart of this moment are women and families, people whose voices have too often been minimized and doubted. Their experiences are not footnotes in history; they are part of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077192 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Chavez-Lopez, executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, listens during a gathering at Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San José on Thursday, March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriela Chavez-Lopez, executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, said that the community must model what accountability looks like as a way to honor the courage of Huerta and other survivors, and to protect others who want to share their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that they can see, okay, if I do that, then what would happen? Well, the community will come to my side, will be there for me,” Chavez-Lopez said. “If they are harmed, there will be somebody there to support you through that, and you don’t have to go at it alone, and you don’t have to feel judged about it.”[aside postID=news_12077059 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg']The revelations have shattered the longstanding iconic image of Chavez around the nation, and have deep resonance in San José, where he lived for a time and where the movement he and Huerta led witnessed some of its first organizing actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexican Heritage Plaza, a community gathering space with gardens, a theater, and a school of arts and culture, opened in 1999. The site of the plaza, at the intersection of South King Road and Alum Rock Avenue, once housed a Safeway where one of the earliest grocery store pickets took place during the UFW’s grape boycotts in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, until this week, a memorial walkway at the plaza featured a sign with a photo of Chavez and information about his connection to the site. Another corridor featured a deep blue painting, depicting a close-up image of Chavez’s eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Thursday afternoon, the sign was taken down and leaned against a wall inside an administrative office. The painting was removed and replaced with an image depicting a hummingbird with flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilmember Peter Ortiz said the council is planning to begin “a community-driven process to review public spaces, monuments, and sites, including Cesar Chavez Plaza in downtown San José,” that feature Chavez’s name or likeness, to consider changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077196 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-04_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 5 San José City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks on March 19, 2026, about the city’s plans to review public spaces that bear the name or image of Cesar Chavez, in the wake of the sexual abuse allegations against the late labor leader. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will be an open and inclusive process, one that reflects our values and ensures we are not causing further harm to anyone,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home where Chavez once lived, about a mile from Mexican Heritage Plaza, was purchased in 2022 by the nonprofit Amigos de Guadalupe, which has used the space for community organizing meetings and mental health programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maritza Maldonado, the executive director of Amigos, said the organization bought the home to preserve it as a part of East San José history and to lift up the legacy of Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077197 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-05_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Maldonado, the executive director of Amigos de Guadalupe in San José, listens during a community gathering to respond to the sexual abuse allegations against the late labor leader Cesar Chavez on Thursday, March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was a hero for all of us, from this very community, who rose to national and international status here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado said the organization has been holding open meetings to get input on how to develop the space for community use and has been fundraising to build out that reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some plans may need to change, and she said Amigos will ask for more input going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That house will remain the people’s house,” Maldonado said. “We are deciding what we’re going to name it, but it will remain a place for community organizers, a place of healing, a place of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Because we don’t have the luxury of distancing ourselves from it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition, including several organizations that make up a group known as the Sí Se Puede Collective — which borrows the powerful organizing slogan originating with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077151/farmworker-activists-reflect-on-legacy-of-civil-rights-icon\">the farmworker movement\u003c/a> and Dolores Huerta — said communities must actively work to create spaces and cultures where no one is above accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign featuring an image of Cesar Chavez and information about his connection to Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San José is seen leaning against a wall in an office at the plaza on March 19, 2026. The sign was removed from a memorial walkway this week after sexual abuse allegations were revealed against the late labor leader. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a moment of responsibility,” said Adriana Caldera Boroffice, the CEO of YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley. “A responsibility to listen without defensiveness, to resist the instinct to protect reputations over people, to challenge the systems that have allowed harm to go unaddressed and to stand firmly on the side of those who have carried these truths for far too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Chavez and helped lead and organize its many historic actions and protests, said Chavez pressured her into sex and raped her in the 1960s, resulting in two pregnancies, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> investigation\u003c/a> published this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also contained allegations against Chavez from two women who said they were young teenagers when he sexually abused them over a period of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077200 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colsaria Henderson, executive director of Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, is seen during a community gathering at Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San José on Thursday, March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Colsaria Henderson, executive director of Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence in San José, said movements that shape history, like the farmworker movement, are not perfect and their leaders are not infallible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are often told to choose between honoring a movement and confronting its flaws, but that is a false choice. We can do both. We can recognize the good that was done while refusing to excuse the harm that occurred. We can hold complexity without losing our moral clarity. In fact, this is how movements grow stronger,” Henderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the heart of this moment are women and families, people whose voices have too often been minimized and doubted. 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The 52-year-old, who lives in Tulare County, said she and her parents benefited from Chavez’s advocacy to include undocumented farmworkers in the last major comprehensive immigration reform in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“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,” said García, who seeds and harvests plants in a job represented by the United Farm Workers, the union that Chavez and Dolores Huerta co-founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, now 95, revealed for the first time publicly that Chavez manipulated her into sex and raped her in the 1960s, telling \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> that the two encounters each left her pregnant. \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Times’\u003c/em> multi-year investigation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">published Wednesday\u003c/a>, also detailed accusations by two women, daughters of union organizers, who said Chavez sexually abused them when they were children in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076915\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmworker picks grapes at a field in Fresno on Sept. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Rolando Hernandez first heard about the allegations from coworkers during a job training meeting, the former agricultural worker was confused. He thought the discussion must be about someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excuse me, but which César Chavez are you talking about?” Hernandez, 33, asked at the gathering. “Because I only know of one César Chavez who fought for farmworkers’ rights so that there’d be better wages and not so much injustice in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the one,” came the response, leaving Hernandez speechless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It landed really heavy,” said Hernandez, an outreach educator for a Fresno-based farmworker nonprofit who began harvesting chile fields as a 14-year-old in Arizona before working with grapes and oranges in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077014/california-weighs-renaming-parks-streets-after-cesar-chavez-amid-abuse-allegations\">fallout from the revelations\u003c/a> was almost immediate. California lawmakers announced they plan to rename the state holiday named after Chavez as Farmworkers Day. Cities, states and organizations, including the UFW, moved to postpone or cancel celebrations planned for March 31 in honor of the Mexican American labor leader’s birthday. Officials are considering \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\">renaming streets\u003c/a>, parks, libraries, schools and other buildings named after Chavez.[aside postID=news_12077059 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg']For decades, Chavez and Huerta’s collaboration to advance farmworker rights has been celebrated in children’s textbooks, biographies, movies and parades. Now, mothers like García are troubled that more was not done sooner to prevent and respond to the alleged attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel for them; it really pains me in the bottom of my soul what happened to them,” García said. “But if what happened is true, why wasn’t it spoken of a long time ago? Why now?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez died in 1993. Huerta said she stayed silent for 60 years because she feared hurting the reputation of a man who became the face of the Mexican American civil rights movement, known for national boycotts, marches and strikes that achieved significant gains for thousands of farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I carried this secret for as long as I did because building the movement and securing farmworker rights was my life’s work,” Huerta said in a statement after the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> investigation was published. “I have never identified myself as a victim, but I now understand that I am a survivor — of violence, of sexual abuse, of domineering men who saw me, and other women, as property, or things to control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Gallegos, whose childhood experiences accompanying her parents to UFW pickets and marches inspired her to become a farmworker advocate, said she felt shattered by the revelations. Now the director of TODEC Legal Center, an immigrant and farmworker nonprofit in the Inland Empire and Coachella Valley, Gallegos praised the courage of Huerta and the other victims who carried their pain before choosing to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stand with our compañera Dolores Huerta and the survivors. What has been revealed is very painful and deeply disturbing,” said Gallegos, her voice cracking. “We know firsthand that silence has never protected our farmworker communities, and no movement or justice can ask people to stay silent about abuse — not then and not now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Workers-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Workers-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Workers-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Workers-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mandarin orchard west of Fresno, California, on March 21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She, like others who spoke with KQED hours after hearing the news, said they want this moment of reckoning to help prevent similar abuses in the future. They hope the allegations against Chavez don’t undercut gains by the farmworker movement as a whole, built by many laborers and their families over decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, we are holding grief. I am holding so much pain in my chest, in my mind, in my heart,” Gallegos said. “At the same time, it’s a reflection that we cannot stay silent, we cannot let our movement end … reassuring our community that their voice matters and that no one should endure any type of abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García, who started accompanying her parents to work in agriculture at the age of 10, said sexual harassment by farm labor contractors and supervisors was rampant. She was fired from jobs, she said, as retaliation for not agreeing to men’s advances. But joining the UFW helped improve her job conditions and feel supported to complain if there were problems, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-7_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-7_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmworker picks grapes at a field in Fresno on Sept. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García said that if union insiders or others knew of the allegations against Chavez but failed to investigate or willingly ignored the underage victims, there should be consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If those people are still around — if they are still alive — then they must be held accountable,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside a courtroom in Fresno, where the UFW is fighting a Trump administration plan to make it cheaper to hire temporary farm labor, union president Teresa Romero asked the public to respect the privacy of victims who came forward, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/cesar-chavez-ufw-romero/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not condone the actions of César Chavez,” Romero said. “It’s wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Huerta said she stayed silent for 60 years because she feared hurting the reputation of a man who became the face of the Mexican American civil rights movement, known for national boycotts, marches and strikes that achieved significant gains for thousands of farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I carried this secret for as long as I did because building the movement and securing farmworker rights was my life’s work,” Huerta said in a statement after the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> investigation was published. “I have never identified myself as a victim, but I now understand that I am a survivor — of violence, of sexual abuse, of domineering men who saw me, and other women, as property, or things to control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Gallegos, whose childhood experiences accompanying her parents to UFW pickets and marches inspired her to become a farmworker advocate, said she felt shattered by the revelations. Now the director of TODEC Legal Center, an immigrant and farmworker nonprofit in the Inland Empire and Coachella Valley, Gallegos praised the courage of Huerta and the other victims who carried their pain before choosing to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stand with our compañera Dolores Huerta and the survivors. What has been revealed is very painful and deeply disturbing,” said Gallegos, her voice cracking. “We know firsthand that silence has never protected our farmworker communities, and no movement or justice can ask people to stay silent about abuse — not then and not now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Workers-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Workers-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Workers-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Workers-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mandarin orchard west of Fresno, California, on March 21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She, like others who spoke with KQED hours after hearing the news, said they want this moment of reckoning to help prevent similar abuses in the future. They hope the allegations against Chavez don’t undercut gains by the farmworker movement as a whole, built by many laborers and their families over decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, we are holding grief. I am holding so much pain in my chest, in my mind, in my heart,” Gallegos said. “At the same time, it’s a reflection that we cannot stay silent, we cannot let our movement end … reassuring our community that their voice matters and that no one should endure any type of abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García, who started accompanying her parents to work in agriculture at the age of 10, said sexual harassment by farm labor contractors and supervisors was rampant. She was fired from jobs, she said, as retaliation for not agreeing to men’s advances. But joining the UFW helped improve her job conditions and feel supported to complain if there were problems, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-7_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-7_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmworker picks grapes at a field in Fresno on Sept. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García said that if union insiders or others knew of the allegations against Chavez but failed to investigate or willingly ignored the underage victims, there should be consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If those people are still around — if they are still alive — then they must be held accountable,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside a courtroom in Fresno, where the UFW is fighting a Trump administration plan to make it cheaper to hire temporary farm labor, union president Teresa Romero asked the public to respect the privacy of victims who came forward, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/cesar-chavez-ufw-romero/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not condone the actions of César Chavez,” Romero said. “It’s wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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