“He did his grooming very well. He should get an Academy Award for all he did," one survivor said. Women who say they were sexually abused by the late Latino civil rights icon Cesar Chavez are speaking out, describing how the labor leader used his power and leadership to traumatize them. “Unfortunately, he used some of his great leadership to abuse women and children — it’s really awful,” fellow United Farm Workers union co-founder Dolores Huerta said in an interview with The New York Times