Huerta
Americannoun
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“I carried this secret for as long as I did because building the movement and securing farmworker rights was my life’s work,” Huerta said in a statement following the Times exposé.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Of course, once they got here and they put them in the fields, that is not what they knew how to do or wanted to do,” Huerta said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
At 86, Dolores Huerta has been working as a civil rights activist for over six decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Translated in 2014 by Frank Wynne as “Liveforever,” the novel is narrated by María del Carmen Huerta, a well-off young woman from Cali who is sucked into the city’s frenetic world of musical subcultures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He refused to recognize Huerta whose authority was contested by insurrectionary chiefs in various parts of the country.
From The United States and Latin America by John Holladay Latane
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