The difference between Cezar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Cezar is being thrown under the bus because he was against illegal immigration. He believed in legal workers.
— Cartel California 🇺🇸 (@Cartel_Cal) March 19, 2026
Dolores is your typical left wing radical activist who supports illegal alien rapist, child molesters and… pic.twitter.com/A2KsNGuMPT
Obama declared Cesar Chavez a National Monument in 2012 — then awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dolores Huerta, his co-founder who now says Chavez raped her twice in the 1960s. Both rapes resulted in pregnancies. Huerta kept them secret for 60 years. The children were… pic.twitter.com/4VfPpHP3Pk
— Jake (@JakeCan72) March 18, 2026
Obama declared Cesar Chavez a National Monument in 2012 — then awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dolores Huerta, his co-founder who now says Chavez raped her twice in the 1960s. Both rapes resulted in pregnancies. Huerta kept them secret for 60 years. The children were raised by other families.
Today the New York Times published a multi-year investigation. Huerta was not the only one to come forward. Two additional women say Chavez began targeting them at ages 12 and 13. One reported dozens of encounters over four years. The other says he drove her to a secluded grape field in Delano, California and raped her at 15.
The collapse is already happening. The UFW has canceled its participation in Cesar Chavez Day events nationwide. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs announced the state will not recognize the day this year. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is discussing with legislators whether changes to Cesar Chavez Day are warranted — including a potential shift to Farmworker Day. Sacramento is moving to rename Cesar Chavez Plaza. San Francisco supervisors report being flooded with calls to rename Cesar Chavez Street — one official is pushing for Dolores Huerta Street. In Fresno, a councilman plans to strip his name from a 10-mile boulevard renamed in his honor just two years ago: “We will not reward people who harmed us.”
His own family released a statement acknowledging “impropriety with women and minors.” They said they were “shocked and saddened.”
Huerta is 96. She stayed silent for six decades because she believed the truth would damage the farmworker movement she helped build.
The federal monument remains in place. The Medal of Freedom was handed to the woman he raped. More than 70 schools and 35+ cities still bear his name.
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