According to a 2025 Los Angeles County Superior Court filing, Huerta's public claim about Chavez comes just months after being privately sued for discrimination and workplace violations of her own.
This piece is full of assumptions and errors. First of all a discrimination lawsuit around disability from a year ago seems hardly like motivation to do this. Its amazing how many people who deny Chavez might have done this forget the two other victims who came forward. They focus on Huerta. I too idolized Cesar till I read "Fight in the Fields" a generally positive book about is life, but his management practices where horrific. I have been a nonprofit leaders for 40 years and if I had done some of the things he'd done I would be sued and in trouble. People worshipped, thats the word, Chavez. Idolatry, being worshipped perverts even good men. It messes you up. So I don't find the allegations all that bizarre. He was a great organizer, historic leader but a deeply flawed man. We can give it up to him for what he did but still starkly see an ugly side to someone. I believe Dolores also because there are other victims, because overwhelmingly women don't talk about these things because of the shame heaped on them (as is happening now). So there is no real motivation for doing so. Keeping quiet to protect the movement is just like the Dolores I know. The Daily Chela should stop stoking conspiracy and "what if" theories. You need to do better and not become the Chicano Fox News.
95 year old Huerta recently claimed she didn’t believe in abortion or birth control at the time, during a tv interview. But those Catholic beliefs did not hold her back from having an affair with Cesar’s younger married, brother, and going on to have four more children with him. Idealizing a woman who took $100,000 from war criminal Hillary Clinton for her own Foundation and then campaigned for the war criminal against Bernie Sanders, using dishonesty and cut throat strategies, does not bode well for her either. There is more. If you ever worked with her, you would know.
I can’t say I disagree with your assertions about how Democrats and party politics work - I too am a Bernie fan. But “having an affair” and being raped are two different things. I get that the logistics are hard to imagine - having two separate children by Chavez - but I still believe the allegations.
How many children did any of those eight men have and with how many different women. Misogynistic victim-blaming gas lighting double standards don’t help whatever you’re insinuating as an “argument.”
I, also, believe that there is a motive to bring down a well deserved Latino Hero. Yes… the motive is clear. Unfortunately, Huerta has hurt and harmed the Chavez Foundation and families.
I believe Chavez’s heartfelt accomplishments will live on, as his legacy.
This piece sounds more like conspiracy theorizing rather than serious analysis. I appreciate the need for careful consideration before moving to full-on erasure of a major figure like Chavez, but the allegations are serious and multiple. Sexual abuse involves power dynamics that deserves serious consideration. I don’t agree that 95-year old Huerta is trying to deflect from allegations against the foundation in her name. More importantly, I don’t agree that the movement itself and as a whole, through these allegations, is being attacked or taken down. To assume that, and it IS an assumption, is to fall for the very thing the author claims to be problematic. Any movement so dependent on the frailty of the reputation or prestige of a given leader, no matter how ‘moderate’ or criticized by ‘both sides,’ is more of a cult than a real movement. Believe these women. Period. We can set the standard for how to respond to sex abuse unlike the Epstein affair that has shown how effective the system is at protecting the powerful even when we all know they’ve openly engaged in the most heinous egregious behavior. To make it plain, we very likely have a rapist and pedophile as president right now and the system continues to simply ignore it.
Good points raised here… humans are imperfect and complex and charismatic leaders present drawbacks in any movement.
This piece is full of assumptions and errors. First of all a discrimination lawsuit around disability from a year ago seems hardly like motivation to do this. Its amazing how many people who deny Chavez might have done this forget the two other victims who came forward. They focus on Huerta. I too idolized Cesar till I read "Fight in the Fields" a generally positive book about is life, but his management practices where horrific. I have been a nonprofit leaders for 40 years and if I had done some of the things he'd done I would be sued and in trouble. People worshipped, thats the word, Chavez. Idolatry, being worshipped perverts even good men. It messes you up. So I don't find the allegations all that bizarre. He was a great organizer, historic leader but a deeply flawed man. We can give it up to him for what he did but still starkly see an ugly side to someone. I believe Dolores also because there are other victims, because overwhelmingly women don't talk about these things because of the shame heaped on them (as is happening now). So there is no real motivation for doing so. Keeping quiet to protect the movement is just like the Dolores I know. The Daily Chela should stop stoking conspiracy and "what if" theories. You need to do better and not become the Chicano Fox News.
95 year old Huerta recently claimed she didn’t believe in abortion or birth control at the time, during a tv interview. But those Catholic beliefs did not hold her back from having an affair with Cesar’s younger married, brother, and going on to have four more children with him. Idealizing a woman who took $100,000 from war criminal Hillary Clinton for her own Foundation and then campaigned for the war criminal against Bernie Sanders, using dishonesty and cut throat strategies, does not bode well for her either. There is more. If you ever worked with her, you would know.
I can’t say I disagree with your assertions about how Democrats and party politics work - I too am a Bernie fan. But “having an affair” and being raped are two different things. I get that the logistics are hard to imagine - having two separate children by Chavez - but I still believe the allegations.
11 children - 8 men.
How many children did any of those eight men have and with how many different women. Misogynistic victim-blaming gas lighting double standards don’t help whatever you’re insinuating as an “argument.”
She did not say she was raped by Cesar's brother.
I, also, believe that there is a motive to bring down a well deserved Latino Hero. Yes… the motive is clear. Unfortunately, Huerta has hurt and harmed the Chavez Foundation and families.
I believe Chavez’s heartfelt accomplishments will live on, as his legacy.
I hope Huerta will find some mindful peace.
Thank you for this article.
This piece sounds more like conspiracy theorizing rather than serious analysis. I appreciate the need for careful consideration before moving to full-on erasure of a major figure like Chavez, but the allegations are serious and multiple. Sexual abuse involves power dynamics that deserves serious consideration. I don’t agree that 95-year old Huerta is trying to deflect from allegations against the foundation in her name. More importantly, I don’t agree that the movement itself and as a whole, through these allegations, is being attacked or taken down. To assume that, and it IS an assumption, is to fall for the very thing the author claims to be problematic. Any movement so dependent on the frailty of the reputation or prestige of a given leader, no matter how ‘moderate’ or criticized by ‘both sides,’ is more of a cult than a real movement. Believe these women. Period. We can set the standard for how to respond to sex abuse unlike the Epstein affair that has shown how effective the system is at protecting the powerful even when we all know they’ve openly engaged in the most heinous egregious behavior. To make it plain, we very likely have a rapist and pedophile as president right now and the system continues to simply ignore it.