Leftist Icon Cesar Chavez Accused of Sexually Abusing Girls as Young as 12
“Reports of the horrific and widely acknowledged sexual assault allegations against Cesar Chavez rightfully dismantle the myth of this progressive hero and undermine the narrative that elevated Chavez as a figure worthy of official state celebration.”
Just to show you how revered United Farm Workers (UFW) co-founder Cesar Chavez was among leftists, The New York Times made sure to include the following note at the top of an explosive article that alleges he sexually abused underage girls in his movement:
The reporters interviewed several women who told their stories for the first time, as well as more than 60 other people, including Cesar Chavez’s top aides and relatives. The reporters also reviewed hundreds of pages of union records, confidential emails, photographs and other material.
In other words, Democrats, please don’t hate us. We really did our homework on this one.
The accusations come from two of the alleged victims themselves, one who was 12 when she said the sexual abuse started. The other alleged victim quoted in the piece was 13 when she says Chavez sexually abused her:
Ana Murguia remembers the day the man she had regarded as a hero called her house and summoned her to see him. She walked along a dirt trail, entered the rundown building, passed his secretary and stepped into his office.
He locked the door, as he always did when he called her, and told her how lonely he had been. He brought her onto the yoga mat that he often used in his office for meditation, kissed her and pulled her pants down. “Don’t tell anyone,” he told her afterward. “They’d get jealous.”
The man, Cesar Chavez, one of the most revered figures in the Latino civil rights movement, was 45. She was 13. Ms. Murguia said she was summoned for sexual encounters with him dozens of times over the next four years.
[…]
Ms. Murguia and Ms. [Debra] Rojas, both of whom are now 66, were the daughters of longtime organizers who had marched in rallies alongside Mr. Chavez. He used the privacy of his California office to frequently molest Ms. Murguia, she said. He had known her since she was 8 years old. She became so traumatized that she attempted to end her life multiple times by the age of 15.
Rojas was 12 when she says the abuse, which included raping her, started. Murguia said that Chavez molested her, but that he did not rape her.
This is beyond horrific. Cesar Chavez was an absolute monster who used the cloak of civil rights to prey on women and girls. https://t.co/aywc6ej2iM pic.twitter.com/tBEbjC72ZG
— Peter Meijer (@PeterMeijer) March 18, 2026
Cesar Chavez had such legendary standing in the Democratic Party that President Biden put a bust of him in the Oval Office. Now, a NYT "bombshell investigation" alleges that Chavez "sexually abused young girls." https://t.co/uONorEksob pic.twitter.com/fCt4yTfN2b
— Byron York (@ByronYork) March 18, 2026
Victims say they were discouraged from speaking up so as not to tarnish Chavez’s legacy:
Leaders in United Farm Workers knew for years about molestation allegations against Cesar Chavez, but didn't do anything about it. https://t.co/mto2JVzDWT pic.twitter.com/On4nfZ7RYN
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) March 18, 2026
On top of it all, Dolores Huerta, who also co-founded the UFW and was an instrumental ally to Chavez, shared a statement on Wednesday, alleging that he raped her, too:
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 have encouraged people to always use their voice. Following the New York Times’ multi-year investigation into sexual misconduct by Cesar Chavez, I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences.
As a young mother in the 1960s, I experienced two separate sexual encounters with Cesar. The first time I was manipulated and pressured into having sex with him, and I didn’t feel I could say no because he was someone that I admired, my boss and the leader of the movement I had already devoted years of my life to. The second time I was forced, against my will, and in an environment where I felt trapped.
I had experienced abuse and sexual violence before, and I convinced myself these were incidents that I had to endure alone and in secret. Both sexual encounters with Cesar led to pregnancies. I chose to keep my pregnancies secret and, after the children were born, I arranged for them to be raised by other families that could give them stable lives.
Over the years, I have been fortunate to develop a deep relationship with these children, who are now close to my other children, their siblings. But even then, no one knew the full truth about how they were conceived until just a few weeks ago.
Huerta, who had four children with Chavez’s brother, Richard, said she kept quiet about it because in her view the movement was bigger than her sexual assault:
I carried this secret for as long as I did because building the movement and securing farmworker rights was my life’s work. The formation of a union was the only vehicle to accomplish and secure those rights and I wasn’t going to let Cesar or anyone else get in the way. I channeled everything I had into advocating on behalf of millions of farmworkers and others who were suffering and deserved equal rights.
“Cesar’s actions do not reflect the values of our community and our movement,” she also stated.
The fallout, the Times noted, has already started:
The U.F.W. canceled its annual celebrations honoring Mr. Chavez, a response to what the union he once led called “profoundly shocking” accusations.
Marches to honor Mr. Chavez were called off in Austin, Texas; Tucson, Ariz.; and elsewhere. Officials in multiple states said they would consider renaming the scores of streets and schools named in his honor. “None of us knew,” Gov. Gavin Newsom of California said on Wednesday, noting that he planned to discuss with legislators whether to rename Cesar Chavez Day on March 31.
112 Cesar Chavez Elementary Schools pic.twitter.com/WLW3mIYdA3
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) March 19, 2026
Cesar Chavez statue dramatically hidden from view after bombshell rape accusations https://t.co/z2OczEN2yq pic.twitter.com/OkGdvUDsb4
— California Post (@californiapost) March 18, 2026
César Chavez Day events renamed, postponed or canceled after sexual abuse allegations https://t.co/iIq6tFSDlg pic.twitter.com/MkSelvy94H
— California Post (@californiapost) March 19, 2026
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has already taken action:
The state of Texas will not observe the Cesar Chavez Day holiday. I am directing all Texas state agency heads to comply. In the upcoming legislative session, I will work with Texas lawmakers to remove Cesar Chavez Day from state law altogether.
Reports of the horrific and widely acknowledged sexual assault allegations against Cesar Chavez rightfully dismantle the myth of this progressive hero and undermine the narrative that elevated Chavez as a figure worthy of official state celebration.
The state of Texas will not observe the Cesar Chavez Day holiday. I am directing all Texas state agency heads to comply. In the upcoming legislative session, I will work with Texas lawmakers to remove Cesar Chavez Day from state law altogether.
Reports of the horrific and widely…
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) March 18, 2026
California Globe editor in chief Katy Grimes, however, says something’s not quite right about all of this:
A few thoughts – I covered thousands of non-union farm workers for 15 years, who the UFW was trying to force unionization on.
It’s been an open secret that Cesar Chavez was a serial womanizer.
Dolores Huerta has been a card-carrying UFW zealot and opportunist for decades. If this is true, why didn’t she reveal this when Chavez died in 1993, 33 years ago? And wasn’t Richard Chavez, Cesar Chavez’s brother father of her four children, her long-term partner?
The timing is suspect, and that the story was fed to the NYT even more suspect.
I smell a big ugly rat. Something isn’t as it seems…
As always, stay tuned.
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Apparently this has been known for many years, so why is this just happening now?
He was against illegal immigration.
Uh huh. I thought Cesar Chavez was a RIGHTIST icon now, for his lifelong fight to keep illegal scabs out of the UNION agricultural labor force.
Geroni – I wasnt aware that he was a child rapist until these recent allegations surfaced. That being said, its been reasonably well known from 30+ years he was a thug.
Based on his well known thuggery, the allegations are very reasonably believable. I suspect that without evidence, that most of those kids , now adults, kept silent and are only now willing to divilege the evil.
“Thug” and “union organizer” go together.
This will be unpopular here, but, accused? Seventy-two hour rule and all that.
This story might be true. Then again the man accused has been dead for over three decades and is unable to directly address these claims or offer any defense. As are many/most of his contemporaries who might have provided alternative facts/evidence or provide testimony to contradict the allegations. IMO this alone makes it fail the smell test and it seems like an orchestrated hatchet job.
If true, will Los Angeles get Brooklyn Avenue back. Will San Francisco see Army Street again?
We have a combined holiday – Presidents Day. Join MLK and Chavez and call it Rapists Day.
Burt, but…! According to the tapes the FBI made for LBJ’s er… “pleasure”, MLKJr was not raping. He was “f….n’ for JEEE-juzz!”
no news yet on whether the most feared most protected group will have some of their heros under the spotlight
no more
malcomx blvds?
no mre kwansa holidays?
no more deity worship of criminal sports heros??
Sports heroes like Michael Vick?
-shrug-
I don’t have a dog in that fight.
/sorry. too good to pass up
woof woof
*smack*
;-{)}}}
I’ve seen a fair bit of speculation as to the timing of the NYT piece and the revelations of Chavez’s abuses. The theories I’ve seen:
1. Chavez hated illegal immigrants. On the eve of the holiday named after him, these revelations were to prevent Republicans from using Chavez’s positions against the anti-ICE forces.
2. One of the up & coming Democrats is a cousin of Chavez and this is more of the underhanded political maneuvers they use to get their preferred candidates into office.
3. Democrats decided that they needed some credibility in their moral posturing and canceling a long-dead icon was a no-cost option.
I do wonder if the same treatment is in store for Harvey Milk at some point in the nebulous future.
I am originally from California born in the late 50s. I grew up poor and worked my way through college working for the phone company and being a member of the CWA. I always understood that Chavez and his UFW hated illegal aliens as they came into the country and cut jobs and wages. This was given to other unions. I learned after college to also to not want H1b and H2 in the country as it affected corporations.
I believe this push of bad history on Chavez is due to his view on illegal aliens. Chavez could be a monster but no reports for decades so it is hard to accept something like this. The Dems and the Left want illegals aliens to be accepted and want any negative light against them to be banned.
The majority of the Ds hated illegal immigration in the 20th century. For most of it the illegals were seasonal workers and we had a completely open border.
Dems in circular firing squad now?
The cognitive dissonance of the left.
Now in the world did she know her 2 children were not her husbands?
If she had t been having sex with her husband, that one thing but you can’t hide a pregnancy from your husband for 9 months
This dog don’t hunt
Supposedly, the two children found out through a 23andme test that Cesar was their father. The problem? That test could just as easily suggest Richard was their father. It’s not a paternity test, it just indicates a male from his line is the father.
Right so it’s not definitive
Sorry, guys, but the days of ‘believe all women’ are long gone.
Is there any proof of this?
And as noted, from the NYT? No.
lets hope that is true
as this whole game of
women are equal women are superior women need special laws
is just as bad as if it were for men to have that
Family court judges haven’t gotten that message yet…
Yet the decerebrate leftists insist on calling PRESIDENT Trump a “pedo,” whil all their role models fit one criminal/demented mold or another.
Must be why they project so much…
These revelations “…dismantle the myth of this progressive hero and undermine the narrative that elevated Chavez as a figure worthy of official state celebration?”
You misunderstand the leftist mindset. Leftists yearn to be on their knees in front of the king, slavering. If it’s good for them, it’s good for their kids. To wit… remember leftist ‘journalists’ gleefully declaring they’d blow Dollar Bill Clinton, or getting starry eyed about the ‘crease’ of Barry Soetero’s pant leg? Whoring their kid out to ‘dear leader’ would be a badge of honor to them.
He was a man I admired, because he wasn’t totally radical and was right to fight for benefits for the food pickers
I was a nurse In SanAntonio and I saw first hand what could and did happen to a young g field hand.
He got his hand stuck in a hay bailer, he tried to pull it out and both arms were cut off at shoulder.
He realized his situation and decor kill himself, he tried to put his head in it but was too large
The farmer found him running down the road with ho arms
Now I didn’t speak Spanish, and there were lots of Spanish speaking nurses and Drs there, but no one wanted to take care of him
It was Absolutely horrific what happened to him.
Finally his sister came, she spoke Spanish. She told me her mother begged him not to come to America, she just knew something awful was going to happen
A English only speaking Dr came in with not an ounce of empathy and told him , as he was going crazy and would jump up just with the strength of his core and legs and run around the room, to settle down, he was going to be D/c’d soon and go black to Mexico
What kind of life do you think he could have possibly had , coming from a poor family in a poor nation?
Never saw the farmer/ rancher
He was a handsome young man of 20, tall, strong and with no arms…
he wasnt quite just “fighting for the food pickers” as he was against the new crop of illegals coming in for what they would do to the union
as far as the guy who was seriously hurt…yeah of course that is tragic
the dr who “only spoke english”
oohhhh my goddddd,,what here in america he only spoke english???
why didnt you know spanish???
Sad story. Not an uncommon situation with illegal alien labor even today. These folks trade their strong back and willingness to take lower wages for cash payment off the books. The employer pays less than market rate, saves the costs of SSA tax, unemployment IN and benefits, the illegal worker gets cash in hand and no questions asked. When the illegal worker gets seriously injured or is too old/broken down to continue they get tossed out like trash.
It’s a crap system that ultimately exploits illegal aliens, harms US Citizens who might take the jobs if they’d receive a fair wage that reflected market price not distorted by cheap illegal alien labor. Hurts the employers who play by the rules and lose business by being under bid by competitors using cheap illegal alien workers. Taxpayers get hammered with spiraling ER costs and all sorts of higher IN costs. Adding some sort of taxpayer responsibility to provide lifelong care/support to some illegal alien who got horrible injured on the job working off the books is unreasonable. The risk was built into his accepting the job.
americans take the job if the received a fair wage??
like what karen basses 25/hour mandates etc!!!??
if there was no welfare state which you seem to approve of
then those who needed to feed themselves and their families would take the jobs
The true minimum wage is 0. By contrast a ‘fair wage’ is determined by the free market within a Nation….not a market distorted by importing illegal alien labor, exporting jobs overseas and other forms of market manipulation…nor by creating an artificial minimum wage.
We should not have a ‘welfare’ state. Not to support the undeserving poor and not to support crony capitalism with a lack of anti monopoly enforcement, govt playing favorites with contracts, regulations that big corporations accept b/c they drive smaller companies out of business,
I suspect we’re gonna see a whole bunch of folks who say they oppose welfare sing a different tune in 7 years when Social Security cuts benefits by 25%. Many of the folks deriding ‘welfare’ gonna be mad as hornets when it is their ‘ox’ getting gored.
Social security for those that EARNED IT ISNT WELFARE
you are confused
its already our money that the gov decides how much we should get back
its not welfare
Nope. It is definitely a welfare program. How? The overwhelming number of beneficiaries get far more than they pay in. About 85% of current beneficiaries get every dime they paid into SSA back by the 5th year. The remainder do so by year ten.
The first SSA beneficiary was Ida May Fuller. She paid less than $25 into SSA in the THREE years she contributed (about $500 in 2025 dollars). She received a little under $23,000 over her remaining lifetime in retirement (about $500,000 in 2025 dollars) She collected a monthly check from January of 1941 till she died in January of 1975.
From the first beneficiary to today the bulk of retired beneficiaries receive vastly more from SSA retirement than they contributed. That ends with Gen X. We paid the current much higher level of SSA and Medicare payroll taxes our entire working lifetime. The first wave of Gen X hits full SSA retirement eligibility in 2032. The SSA trust fund will have been paid back every dime borrowed by the Treasury plus interest in…2032. At that point only current revenue from payroll taxes will be available to fund SSA retirement and the revenue projections consistently show a roughly 25% shortfall.
With a 25% shortfall in revenue from payroll taxes and a National Debt by then of well over $50 Trillion the $ isn’t available from general revenue to make up the shortfall. We’re gonna spend more on interest costs to finance the National Debt than we do on the entire US Defense Budget, roughly 22% more this year, just like last year. It gets worse b/c much of the Debt was short-term at lower rates. When that gets rolled over it will be at a higher interest rate and about $11 Trillion rolls over in the next twelve months.
SSA isn’t solvent. There is no individual depository account with ‘your’ $. It isn’t sustainable. Benefits will be slashed by 25%…unless of.course you are advocating transfers of $ from general revenue to support SSA benefits which were not ‘earned’ and are by any reasonable definition a form of welfare.
re: commo
march 20 2026
12:45 pm
again
its our money to be given back
thats nottt welfaer
and if the government in *some* cases pays people more than they put in
that backs up what I am saying …its another reason the gov should not be in charge of this
but that doesnt address your attack on social security recipients who want their own money back…as the same as welfare people who dont or have never paid in and just bilk the system
dc,
I ain’t attacking anyone. I am pointing out that as a factual matter:
A. 85% of SSA beneficiaries get every dime back within 5 years and the remainder within 10 years. After that they get ‘other people’s money’ they didn’t contribute themselves aka ‘welfare’.
B. In six short years, 2032, the payroll taxes for SSA retirement 6.2% from the employee and 6.2% paid by employer will only support about 75% of benefits. That leaves 25% shortfall which gotta come from.somewhere and probably general revenues. Money covering out of general revenues to pay for public benefit programs is ‘welfare’.
That leaves aside issues of generational free riding by every generational cohorts before Gen X. All prior generations paid far less in payroll taxes in comparison to Gen X and younger. One reason wages haven’t kept pace is higher payroll taxes from the employer 6.2% since 1990 v the much lower rates prior…in 1970 OASI was 3.65%. Another driver of low wage growth is health costs due to warped health insurance and healthcare market. I would suggest that those on SSA retirement and on Medicare (not full unpaid by individual either) are insulated from those issues to a large extent at least in comparison to working age population. Those COLA adjustments for SSA retirement don’t seem to have applied to wages on a consistent basis.
In sum after 5 years drawing SSA retirement you’ve gotten back every dime plus some extra unless you were in top 10% of wage earners throughout your working lifetime and maxed out OASI taxes. After that its gravy. In 2032 if general revenues are used to fill the 25% shortfall then at least 25% of every SSA check is welfare. Nor does that include the downstream impact of putting our children and grandchildren into debt to pay for it.
IMO other than VA, military and civilian retirement every govt payment is welfare. I’m happy to concede SSA repayment of what each individual has contributed but that is the first five years and after that it is not ‘earned’. Then there’s the BS of spousal benefits which you avoided entirely and whatever else they are they ain’t an earned benefit of the individual receiving them.
As I predicted when one’s own OX is getting gored then there’s pushback about making an accurate classification of what is/isn’t ‘welfare’. If it ain’t your own savings, investment or the return of your own contributions (not any excess above it) or a pension or VA for Veterans who Dang sure earned it then the monetary transfer payment is an unearned benefit payment.
UFA’s top guy was abusive.
UFA apparently knew, but no one stopped him.
Question: Should an investigation be done to find the other perps?
the timing???
B/c they need to have this animosity under the trump admin
this info has been known but obama? no way
fjb? even mo no way
but now with trump
they want to ask him these questions and leavitt so they can turn the hispanic vote against trump while he has captured so many of their votes that no gop could have everrrr gotten
He was also against immigration. He was out for his farm union.
Oh well that is likely the reason then. I don’t know much about him historically just that I had a roommate in college with a poster of him on the wall.
Neil Goldschmidt says “hold my beer.” The best part was that soon after a local rag revealed this scandal publically, the Oregonian quickly came out with an apology where they promised to do better (they said that they’d heard rumors along the way), and then immediately lied about one of their editors who had a fatal heart attack while in the company of a young woman who he was “helping” through college. You literally cannot hate the media enough.
Interesting question, why throw Chavez under the bus suddenly? Is more going to come out about him that’s even worse than this? Was he known to support causes that don’t align with the NYT crowd, so it was time to bury him? I don’t know but the NYT don’t do “news” they do agenda, so I believe that other reporter when he says the timing is suspicious.
It will never be possible to determine if this really happened or not. There is simply no way to tell. The lack of an honest media – or even semi-honest – is literally killing the country, and this is one more sordid example.
I am highly suspicious of the NYT since EVERYTHING they do is designed to bring about the Glorious Communist Revolution (TM). Like Gollum they have been ruined by their insane lust for the One Ring (political power).
Sit you have not seen portraying the rescue of a young girl who had been kidnapped by a cartel that sold children in to sexual slaver.
???
You know Russia has a statue of Ivan the Terrible.
I have seen the old gods go
And the new gods come.
Day by day,
Year by year,
The idols rise,,
The idols fall.
Today, I worship the hammer.
Carl Sandburg, sociaist and atheist that he was, was honest enough to recognize the truth. Chavez was the idol of his time’ Milk was the idol of his time; tans is the idol of our time; but the writing is on the wall for all of them.
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