Jailed 22 times, beaten by police, honoured by Obama: how Dolores Huerta turned three Spanish words into a cry heard across the world., People, Times Now. In May 1972, César Chávez was fasting inside Santa Rita Hall in Phoenix in protest of a new Arizona law against farmworker unions. Dolores Huerta had spent the day asking prominent Latino leaders for help, and they told her it could not be done in Arizona.