Word: huerta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assistant to the dean of student affairs. The college offers courses in Chicano history and literature, both taught by Chicano faculty members. And Yale provides its Chicanos with approximately $10,000 each year for recruitment efforts, a speakers' forum featuring prominent Chicano figures such as UFW's Dolores Huerta, and the expenses of an exclusively Chicano dormitory...
...hoping that el Caudillo was strong enough to withstand surgery, they had him wheeled from his bedroom to the infirmary of his personal guard's barracks, 200 yards from the palace, for an attempt to halt the massive internal hemorrhaging. In a three-hour operation, Dr. Manuel Hidalgo Huerta, an old friend, removed one bleeding ulcer from the wall of Franco's stomach and tied a large gastric artery that carries blood to the stomach wall. Franco was also given two gallons of blood, more than replacing his entire blood volume...
...never held elections and the UFW had rejected its offers to do so. While the Teamsters and growers have always demanded elections, Chavez has consistently prevented them. Chavez testified against a California legistlature bill in 1971 that guaranteed secret ballot elections, saying elections were too sophisticated for farmworkers. Dolores Huerta, UFW vice president, testified, "Farmworkers don't understand democracy, they don't know what an election...
Another source of misrepresentations by Chavez and his supporters has been the subject of farmworkers' wages. In 1972, UFW vice president Dolores Huerta reported on public television, "The average earnings of a farmworker in the U.S. are only $1400 a year...
...time workers, you will get a distorted, meaningless figure for annual incomes. Averaging the annual farm income of some one who works two weeks in the fields with someone who works all year would hardly give you an accurate picture of their wages. But this is precisely how Dolores Huerta and Chavez's supporters get their figures for annual farm incomes...