Colage: CC mural removed from downtown Bakersfield on 4/3; new DH mural by Robert Vargas, unveiled in L.A. on 4/12 It 's only been three weeks (March 18) since the NY Times published its explosive investigative report on César Chávez's (CC) sexual crimes. There were revelations of him having groomed and abused young girls for years in the 1970s. Dolores Huerta (DH) - CC's longtime associate -herself revealed having been assaulted by Chávez twice in the 1960s, resulting in pre

Image source: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times The revelations about César Chávez’s sexual misconduct with girls and women have been devastating. As those of you acquainted with my writings know, I approach most topics from a macro-sociological perspective. This includes my last essay  on today’s accelerated implosion of the U.S. social formation, which is generating state violence and social & political chaos under the weight of innumerable pathologies spread by the MA

The United States under Trump: against the world and its own people.  By Gonzalo Santos [1] Abstract This essay attempts to analyze the current conjuncture in the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean from the perspective of the historical sociology of the world-system. It seeks to demonstrate that the internal crisis in the US and its renewed imperialist policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean (and Greenland) are intimately related as the result of two hist