Spanish Msgr. Lucio Vallejo Balda cited a Whatsapp conversation in which Francesca Chaouqui told him: "I will destroy you in all the newspapers and you know that I can do it."
Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of Senator Kennedy and Cesar Chavez, Mrs. Kennedy joined the Coalition of Immokalee Workers at their protest.
The coalition has used demonstrations and sometimes consumer boycotts to pressure the five largest fast-food companies—Wendy's, McDonald's, Burger King, Subway and Taco Bell—into joining its "fair food program."
"A new and disturbing pattern of violations against children's rights has emerged in the conflict" as youngsters have been killed and maimed, boys under age 15 have been forced into active combat, while still others have been exposed to siege and starvation.