Cesar Chavez’s Remote Compound Likened to a Cult
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The image of labor hero Cesar Chavez continues to disintegrate. First, a New York Times investigation revealed allegations of systemic sexual abuse of girls and women. Now, a second Times investigation suggests that Chavez morphed into something like a cult leader at his haven in the California mountains. Reporters dig into La Paz, the remote Tehachapi Mountains compound that became the United Farm Workers’ headquarters in the 1970s—and, according to new interviews, the setting for both troubling leadership practices and sexual abuse by Chavez. Former UFW staffers describe a leader increasingly absorbed in fringe “mind control” techniques who adopted a leadership style based on the Synanon drug-treatment program that emphasizes verbal abuse.
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