The Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida will speak clearly.
No one person represents the totality of our struggle. No one person determines whether we succeed or fail. No one person defines our return to history or our ability to end settler colonialism.
The allegations César Chávez abused young girls are serious, disturbing, and sickening. They represent a profound violation of trust, of power, and of the most basic principle any movement must uphold: do no harm.
We do not excuse these behaviors or minimize them to save face. We definitely will not remain silent about them.
Silence protects abuse the same way the same way civility protects power. Sycophancy enables abuse and hero worship cements it. These practices have no place in our movement for liberation.
For far too long, our communities have been conditioned to protect leaders instead of principles. We have been taught to defend names, to preserve images, to avoid hard truths in the name of unity. That is not unity. That is weakness.
We never needed hero-worship, we have always needed our cultura and organizing.
At this discouraging moment, El Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida encourages each and every Xicanx, Xicano, and Xicana to speak out against abuse and to learn to organize our community. Forces against us, even our own failings, can snuff individuals from the movement, but each of us can start new fires.
Collective political acts are built through organization. Through education.Through accountability. Through an uncompromising commitment to doing no harm.
If true, then what these allegations expose is not just the actions of one individual, but the danger of any structure that allows power to go unchecked. A movement that cannot confront harm within itself cannot claim to fight for justice outside of itself.
But let us be equally clear:
The movement for worker dignity, for migrant justice, for the rights of our people, that movement is not a failure because of the failures of one man.
It never belonged to one man!
It belongs to the people who organized, who sacrificed, who labored in the fields and in the streets, for every person who is reading this message who built something larger than themselves. Our struggle does not disappear because of this moment. If anything, this moment demands more from us.
As we build the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida, our responsibility is to ensure this cannot happen again. We are building an organization rooted in collective leadership, in political education, and in accountability at every level.
An organization where no one stands above critique. Where no one is beyond consequence.
Where the mission—the reestablishment of Indigenous sovereignty and the upliftment of all people—remains greater than any individual.
The news of the allegations against César Chávez fits in a long line of elders who inspired many as they tormented others. We call upon our Raza to become better elders, particularly hetero men. The abuse cycle needs to stop now. Children and young Xicanas need real encouragement and nurturing, not quid pro quo relationships and nightmares.
We do not abandon the movement.
We strengthen it by telling the truth.
We mature by rejecting myths.
We advance by organizing with discipline and principle.
Our movement continues.
SI SE PUEDE!