US civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, whose decades of campaigning brought lasting changes to workers' rights, is accused of being a serial rapist who abused children and harassed women in the movement he led, a bombshell New York Times investigation said Wednesday.
Over the years in which the charismatic Chavez galvanised farmworkers, winning reforms for a marginalised group and global recognition for himself, he was also molesting youngsters and coercing women into sexual relationships, the report said.
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