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Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers co-founder, dies at 96

Dolores Huerta, the labor and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez, died Wednesday at 96, her family announced in a statement on Instagram.^{⁠[7, 9, 10 +2]} Her family said she died at home, and The Guardian reported she died in California.^{⁠[7, 26]} Huerta helped organize farmworkers, led strikes and boycotts, and coined the rallying cry "Sí, se puede," according to Axios and NPR.^{⁠[6, 14, 21]}

In early 2026, she told The New York Times that she had been raped by Chavez decades earlier; IJR reported she made the accusation in March 2026, saying the abuse occurred in the 1960s.^{⁠[10, 28]} The Daily Wire reported that Huerta admitted she had kept her account of the abuse secret for six decades.^⁠[30] Huerta was born in New Mexico and raised by a single mother, Yahoo News reported, and continued work on immigration and voting issues, according to the BBC.^{⁠[26, 34]}

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