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...worked side by side with Cesar Chavez, the founder and leader of the United Farm Workers...
Under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, the poor treatment of local migrant farm workers was beginning to attract national attention...
...Cesar Chavez was starting the grape strike, [and] I had a friend who was working with Cesar," he says. "I saw it as an extension of the civil rights movement in California...
...Christian Democrats, the largest opposition party, have little choice but to form a coalition with emerging center-left parties. The strongest, the Democratic Convergence, received less than 15% of the vote in recent local elections. The Christian Democrats' best presidential hope is still former Foreign Minister Fidel Chavez Mena, whom Cristiani thrashed soundly in 1989. Says Chavez: "The left must think really hard about its proper role in the new El Salvador. We foresee an alliance of democratic forces that would permit a government of concertacion...
Speaking out against injustice takes courage and determination, but we can always look to the life of Cesar Chavez for strength and guidance. As Chavez himself said on the last day of his 25-day fast in 1968, "The greatest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help...