How Cesar Chavez Abused His Power
One woman who was affected shared her story.
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April 6, 2026
Cesar Chavez holds a microphone in front of a banner as a crowd listens.
Cesar Chavez speaks to farmworkers and other unionized laborers in Foley Square in New York in 1971. Barton Silverman/The New York Times

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How Cesar Chavez Abused His Power

There has been a swift response to The New York Times’s investigation that revealed decades of sexual abuse by the United Farm Workers co-founder Cesar Chavez.

“The Daily” talked to the reporters who broke the story, Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes, about what it had taken to expose a secret kept for decades.

And Ana Murguia, 66, who said she had been abused by Chavez, gave her first extensive interview to Hurtes. In it, she explained her experience and why she decided to speak out now. You can read that here.

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