‘The Worship of Caesar’

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Keene, California—It was 1979, and Cesar Chavez, then director of the Union of Agricultural Workers, convened a staff meeting at the union’s remote headquarters in the Tehachapi Mountains, 125 miles (201 kilometers) north of Los Angeles. When the proceedings came to an end, Chávez abruptly changed the subject and instructed someone to turn off the lights. “Who can see my aura?” he asked the room. Larry Tramutola and his wife, an organizer and ac…