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How Dolores Huerta's 'Sí, se puede' became Obama's 'Yes, we can'

short by / on Thursday, 29 October, 2026
Activist Dolores Huerta, who died on Wednesday aged 96, coined 'Sí, se puede' in Phoenix in 1972, according to United Farm Workers. She said it to leaders who told her farmworkers could not beat an anti-union Arizona law. Ex-US President Barack Obama, who used 'Yes, we can' in 2008, said "I often get credit for slogan...but Dolores got there first."
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