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This fast of 36 days was Chavez's way of asking Americans to not forget the suffering of farm workers and their children, the important human beings who feed this nation daily. Thousands of Americans have responded positively to Chavez's appeal for support, and today the boycott is quickly gaining monentum and making a large impact on grape sales. But there is still much more to be done...
Since 1962, the United Farm Workers (UFW) of America and Cesar Chavez, its founders and president, have relied on the support and compassion of the American people. In the first grape boycott, from 1965 to 1970, farm workers and UFW volunteers, including many students, successfully convinced millions of Americans to stop buying California table grapes...
...portion of their financial backing from agribusiness, have shamefully denied farm workers their legal rights. As a result, the working conditions of farm workers rapidly declined in the 1980s. The state of grape workers and their children today, in 1991, is worse than it was 30 years ago, when Chavez first set out to eliminate the injustices of agricultural work...
AGAINST ALL THESE injustices and many more, the UFW and Cesar Chavez in 1984 called their third boycott of California table grapes. In 1987, the boycott received the resources it desperately needed to get off the ground and become effective. One year later, in 1988, Chavez embarked on his third water fast since 1968, "The Fast for Life...
After five hours of negotiations with assistant attorney general Federico Ponce Rojas, Chavez surrendered last week and was flown to Mexico City aboard a government jet. Earlier, in a letter addressed to the New York Times, Chavez said he had been the target of a paid assassin, and would provide evidence implicating agents of the Mexican Federal Judicial Police, who oversee antidrug efforts. Law-enforcement officials in Mexico and the U.S. have long complained about corruption among members of the federal police, who have been accused of murder, rape and other abuses, including the 1985 torture and killing of Enrique...