Cesar Chavez sexual assault claims leave Tri-City Latino leaders reeling

By: Larissa Babiak

Outlets: Tri-City Herald

Published: March 24, 2026

Words: 376

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Pasco Councilman Leo Perales has a poster of Cesar Chavez and copies of his books in his office. The items serve as reminder of the labor activist and the farmworker rights movement he helped lead.

But recent news of sexual abuse allegations against Chavez has changed Perales’s perspective on the man he once admired.

Last week, the New York Times published an investigation reporting allegations that Chavez sexually abused girls and women during the …

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