Matthew J. "Matt" Garcia is a professor of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies, history and human relations at Dartmouth College. He is also the author of “From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement.” In an opinion column that ran in The Santa Cruz Sentinel on Thursday, March 26, 2026, Garcia says that it is "time for Cesar Chavez to fall." The column also ran in The Los Angeles Times on March 19, 2026.
I am assuming that those who are reading this blog posting of mine, in early June, will know all about the disclosures naming Chavez as a sexual predator. No further need to rehearse, or even comment upon those things - at least, so I think.
I do, however, want to provide you with the last paragraph in Garcia's column (emphasis added):
We need to acknowledge that whatever the UFW accomplished, it often did so as a collective. There’s a reason the UFW’s slogan, “Sí se puede,” is translated as “Yes, we can.” History shows us that organizers, workers and advocates solved problems by coming together, not by blindly following orders from Chavez. This is the moment for Cesar to fall.
Yes, WE can! "Sí se puede." The grammatical fact is that "we" doesn't actually appear, in any literal way, in that Spanish expression. It's just implied!
In all our endeavors, and particularly in politics, let's never forget the fact that the emphasis is always on the "WE."
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