Like everyone else, the César Chávez revelations shocked us, maybe more so than others since we had worked with him for almost two decades.
The stunning news did not just deliver a gut-punch betrayal but also immediate anxiety about the damage that the exposé of his dark side would do to the movement, to all those who, for decades, had worked and given their time and sweat to La Causa, including the United Farm Workers (UFW) organizers killed in California and Florida—the martyrs.
