How Cesar Chavez Abused His Power
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The New York Times
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrowave. |
| 0:04.3 | This is the daily. |
| 0:11.0 | Breaking news in New York Times just publishing shocking new allegations made against late labor leader, Cesar Chavez. |
| 0:18.9 | After a Times investigation revealed allegations of sexual abuse against one of America's most important civil rights icons. |
| 0:28.6 | This really is a reimagining of a whole legacy. |
| 0:31.6 | The entire country has started to reckon with a new reality. |
| 0:36.6 | They covered up the late civil rights leader's name with cement. |
| 0:40.2 | Removed the image of Cesar Chavez from several commissioned pieces of art. |
| 0:44.0 | A statue at Cesar Chavez Plaza is now wrapped up in plastic you see here. |
| 0:48.7 | And a history that's now been rewritten. |
| 0:52.1 | California officially renaming the holiday formerly known as S.S.O. Chavez Day, March 31st, |
| 0:58.6 | now to Farm Workers Day. |
| 1:01.4 | Today, on what would have been Caesar Chavez Day in California, we talked to the reporters |
| 1:07.3 | who broke the story, Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hertz about the women at the |
| 1:13.5 | center of it and what it took to uncover a secret that they'd carried for more than 50 years. |
| 1:22.3 | It's Tuesday, March 31st. |
| 1:28.9 | Manny and Sarah, welcome to the show. |
| 1:31.6 | Thank you for having us. |
| 1:32.7 | Hi. |
| 1:33.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:34.6 | So you two just came out with this bombshell that was years in the making, this reporting showing |
| 1:41.1 | that Cesar Chavez sexually abused young girls and women in his movement, |
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