The old line tells us there are no heroes up close — that each of us has flaws, including those whom we revere — but that line won’t do in the matter of César Chávez, the now-disgraced civil rights icon and champion of Latino farmworkers.
A yearlong investigative article by the New York Times revealed that Chávez, who died in 1993, had allegedly groomed and then sexually abused two young girls, Ana Murguía and Debra Rojas, and suggested there were many other victims.
The stories are shocking, even today as we live in the world that Jeffrey Epstein helped create…