Huerta

[ wer-tuh; Spanish wer-tah ]

noun

1. Vic·to·ria·no [beek-taw-, ryah, -naw], 1854–1916, Mexican general: provisional president of Mexico 1913–14.

Example Sentences

When then-President Obama awarded California labor leader Dolores Huerta the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — one person was notably absent from the ceremony in the White House’s East Room: Julie Chavez Rodriguez.

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Huerta has known Chavez Rodriguez, the granddaughter of the legendary Cesar Chavez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with Huerta, since she was an infant.

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But to the world, the onetime farmworker who died in 1993 was an impassioned labor and civil rights leader whose organizing work with Huerta and nonviolent protests — fasts, strikes and boycotts — led to dramatic improvements in the lives of farmworkers.

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“Oftentimes I would go to Washington, D.C. — I know a lot of people there — I would tell them Julie is Cesar Chavez’s granddaughter,” Huerta said.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, San Francisco Mayor London Breed and San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria are included, as are Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, the head of the California Labor Federation; civil rights activist Dolores Huerta; and the heads of local and statewide unions representing firefighters, utility workers, teachers and construction workers.

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