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[劳工领袖多洛雷斯·胡尔塔]于周三似乎证实了针对已故塞萨尔·查韦斯对年轻女性或未成年人实施虐待的指控，[在一份声明中]写道她曾与他有过两次非自愿的”性接触”，并因此怀孕。
查韦斯本人也是工会和民权领袖，其虐待指控于周三上午[由《纽约时报》首次报道]。查韦斯和胡尔塔是20世纪60年代全国农场工人协会的联合创始人。该组织后来更名为联合农场工人联盟，目前仍代表着近5000名农场工人。查韦斯于1993年去世。胡尔塔仍活跃于政治领域。
95岁的胡尔塔[写道]，她一直对这些袭击事件秘而不宣，因为她”认为揭露真相会损害我毕生为之奋斗的农场工人运动”。她表示，此次调查及其中披露的指控促使她分享自己的经历。
“我之所以隐瞒这么久，是因为建立这场运动并保障农场工人权益是我毕生的事业。组建工会是实现和保障这些权利的唯一途径，我不会让塞萨尔或其他人阻碍这一进程，”胡尔塔写道。”我把全部精力都投入到为数百万遭受苦难、理应享有平等权利的农场工人发声上。”
塞萨尔·查韦斯，1974年9月。Les Lee / Express / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
胡尔塔表示，她是被”操纵和施压而发生性关系”的，因为”他是我所敬佩的人，是我的老板，也是我已为之奉献多年的运动的领袖，我觉得无法拒绝”。
“第二次，我是被迫的，违背了自己的意愿，在一个让我感到被困住的环境中，”胡尔塔写道。”我以前也曾经历过虐待和性暴力，我说服自己这些是我必须独自秘密承受的事情。”
胡尔塔没有具体说明这些接触发生在何时，只称自己是”20世纪60年代的一位年轻母亲”，当时她应该是30多岁。
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胡尔塔称，这两次事件都导致了怀孕，她秘密生下了孩子。她说，她”安排（孩子们）由能给他们稳定生活的其他家庭抚养”，并且她与这些孩子已经建立了关系，但”直到几周前，才有人完全知道他们是如何被孕育的”。
胡尔塔表示，针对查韦斯的指控让她感到恶心，她的”心为多年来独自默默承受苦难的每个人而痛”。她还写道，”没有足够强烈的词语可以谴责”查韦斯的”令人不齿的行为”。
多洛雷斯·胡尔塔，2025年8月16日，德克萨斯州议会大厦外。Brandon Bell / Getty Images
“我从未将自己视为受害者，但现在我明白自己是一名幸存者——经历了暴力、性虐待，以及那些将我和其他女性视为财产或可控制对象的专横男性的伤害。…我已经保守这个秘密太久了，我的沉默到此结束。”
胡尔塔表示，针对查韦斯的指控”并不反映我们社区和运动的价值观”，并认为”农场工人运动一直比任何个人都更重要、更宏大”。多洛雷斯·胡尔塔基金会网站提供了针对性侵犯幸存者的资源。
联合农场工人联盟表示，正在与查韦斯划清界限，并将不参与庆祝其生日的塞萨尔·查韦斯日活动。该活动在加利福尼亚州、犹他州、亚利桑那州和华盛顿州是[法定假日]。据哥伦比亚广播公司萨克拉门托报道，工会称针对查韦斯的指控”令人心碎”。
据哥伦比亚广播公司萨克拉门托报道，塞萨尔·查韦斯基金会表示对这些指控”深感震惊和悲痛”，并正在与联合农场工人联盟合作回应。
Labor leader Dolores Huerta says she was assaulted by Cesar Chavez as allegations of abuse emerge
March 18, 2026 / 1:11 PM EDT / CBS News
[Labor leader Dolores Huerta] appeared to corroborate allegations of abuse against young women or minors by the late Cesar Chavez on Wednesday, [writing in a statement] that she had two non-consensual “sexual encounters” with him that ended in pregnancy.
The allegations of abuse by Chavez, himself a union and civil rights leader, were [first reported by the New York Times] on Wednesday morning. Chavez and Huerta were co-founders of the National Farm Workers Association in the 1960s. The group later became the United Farm Workers union, which still represents nearly 5,000 farm workers. Chavez died in 1993. Huerta remains active in politics.
Huerta, 95, [wrote] that she kept the assaults secret because she “believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.” The investigation and the allegations shared within it inspired her to share her experiences, she said.
“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 achieve and secure those rights and I wasn’t going to let Cesar or anyone else get in the way,” Huerta wrote. “I channeled everything I had into advocating on behalf of millions of farmworkers and others who were suffering and deserved equal rights.”
Cesar Chavez in September 1974. Les Lee / Express / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
Huerta said that she was “manipulated and pressured into having sex” with Chavez, and felt she could not 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,” Huerta wrote. “I had experienced abuse and sexual violence before, and I convinced myself these were incidents that I had to endure alone and in secret.”
Huerta did not specify when the encounters occurred, except to describe herself as a “young mother in the 1960s,” when she would have been in her 30s.
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Huerta said both instances led to pregnancies, which she carried and delivered in secret. She “arranged for (the children) to be raised by other families that could give them stable lives” after they were born, she said. Huerta said that she has developed a relationship with those children, but that “no one knew the full truth about how they were conceived until just a few weeks ago.”
Huerta said that the allegations against Chavez sicken her and that her “heart aches for everyone who suffered alone and in silence for years.” She also wrote that “there are no words strong enough to condemn” Chavez’s “deplorable actions.”
Dolores Huerta outside the Texas Capitol on August 16, 2025. Brandon Bell / Getty Images
“I have never identified myself as a victim, but I now understand that I am a survivor — of violence, of sexual abuse, of domineering men who saw me, and other women, as property, or things to control. … I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here.”
Huerta said that the allegations against Chavez “do not reflect the values of our community and our movement” and said that she believed the “farmworker movement has always been bigger and far more important than any one individual.” The Dolores Huerta Foundation website includes resources for sexual assault survivors.
The UFW said that it is distancing itself from Chavez, and abstaining from participating in Cesar Chavez Day activities, which celebrate his birthday. It is a [formal holiday in California], Utah, Arizona and Washington. The union called the allegations against him “crushing,” [CBS Sacramento reported].
The Cesar Chavez Foundation said that it is “deeply shocked and saddened” by the allegations, and working with the UFW to respond, according to CBS Sacramento.
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