{"id":69351,"date":"2026-03-18T15:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/lawmakers-and-community-leaders-react-to-indefensible-cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:53:37","slug":"lawmakers-and-community-leaders-react-to-indefensible-cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/lawmakers-and-community-leaders-react-to-indefensible-cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers and community leaders react to \u2018indefensible\u2019 C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez sexual abuse allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times report leads to multiple cancellations of events meant to celebrate the late labor organizer<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lawmakers, union leaders and several community organizations expressed their dismay after allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior and abuse of young women or girls emerged against the late labor organizer C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times released an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/18\/us\/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">investigation<\/a> on Wednesday detailing the allegations, which revealed that for years the co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union had groomed and sexually abused girls who were involved in the movement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/18\/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times report leads to multiple cancellations of events meant to celebrate the late labor organizer Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Lawmakers, union leaders and several community organizations expressed their dismay after allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior and abuse of young women or girls &#8230; <a title=\"Lawmakers and community leaders react to \u2018indefensible\u2019 C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez sexual abuse allegations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/lawmakers-and-community-leaders-react-to-indefensible-cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lawmakers and community leaders react to \u2018indefensible\u2019 C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez sexual abuse allegations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}