Cesar Chavez Ally Covered Up Assaults for 60 Years to Protect ‘Movement’

In my article today, ‘The Child Rapes of Cesar Chavez’, I asked a basic question that all too few are asking about the leftist labor leader’s crimes against women and girls.

A priest who had worked with Chavez’s United Farm Workers told the San Antonio Express that two women had previously come forward. “Those young women spoke out. And it never went anywhere.” Who in the media did they speak to? And who in the media covered it up?

How many on the Left had known about the allegations more recently yet chose to say nothing?

Matt Garcia, the author of the most controversial Chavez biography, “From the Jaws of Victory” told the newspaper that he had seen allegations on a closed chat and appeared to have done nothing with them. “I have been asked to remain quiet, and I will abide by those wishes,”

How many others have been staying silent rather than report on Chavez’s crimes?

The woman who had the credibility to speak out and stop this nightmare, but didn’t to protect the ‘movement’ is being cheered for now speaking out.

Dolores Huerta, an ally of Chavez, told the New York Times that he had raped her, but her statement, which is being reprinted in newspapers and across social media as if it were an act of courage, is really an admission of guilt.

“I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for… I carried this secret for as long as I did because building the movement and securing farmworker rights was my life’s work…”

Huerta doesn’t claim that she stayed silent because she was afraid or thought no one would believe her, but for purely ideological reasons. Much like the Communists who covered up for Stalin’s crimes or the Democrats who protected JFK and Bill Clinton, what mattered was the movement, not the people who were getting hurt.

“I am telling my story because the New York Times has indicated that I was not the only one — there were others. Women are coming forward, sharing that they were sexually abused and assaulted by Cesar when they were girls and teenagers. The knowledge that he hurt young girls sickens me. My heart aches for everyone who suffered alone and in silence for years.”

Why were they suffering in silence? If Huerta had spoken out, the fathers and mothers of the young girls he abused would have been on alert. And things like this would not have kept on happening.

How many failed to notice, as the New York Times wrote that he, “was a frequent presence in the lives of the daughters of his loyal organizers and volunteers. They recalled his attending their family functions, taking them on tour with him, asking them to work in his office after school and exchanging letters, gifts and photographs”. How many knew and said nothing for the sake of the movement?

One girl, whom Chavez started grooming when she was only twelve, remembers “when Mr. Chavez drove up with one of his bodyguards” took her to a motel and raped her. “She was a virgin, and remembers that it hurt, and she was bleeding. But she also remembers the gun Mr. Chavez had placed on the night stand next to the bed.”

One of the young girls, whom Chavez began grooming when she was only thirteen, described how he used “alternative healing therapies” to find “pressure points” on her body. “When I was on the yoga mat is when he would try to have sex,” she recalled.

Dolores Huerta betrayed those girls and other victims for the sake of her ‘movement’. She deserves condemnation, not praise. And her actions are a window into the crimes of the Left which will excuse any abuses for the movement.