Mario F. Vazquez

I am very lucky to have met and worked with a hero. Mario tirelessly taught us (teachers and parents) at Victory on how to save our school from injustice. Mario empowered us. I admired his vigilance and intellect. If all of us (UTLA members) can have an ounce of his activism and energy we would do very well.

Thank you for your life, Mario. I will miss you.

For the Vazquez Family, thank you for sharing him with us.

Yours truly,
Marissa Cutaran-Vickers

Mario will always be remembered for his passionate commitment to improving and advancing human rights, preserving dignity and instilling in others the power to make a change and a difference in this world. He always greeted you with his signature big smile and warm welcome whenever you saw him. Mario's sweet manner and endearing sense of humor was equally matched by his intelligence and quick wit, his compassion and courage, his sensitivity and sincerity. I learned so much from Mario in...

Mario knew injustice when he saw it, and then did everything in his power to stop it. A real hero. The teachers at Langdon Elementary School already miss him greatly. Our prayers are with you.

La Familia Becerra, Becerra-Arrieta, and Becerra-Valencia wish to relay our deepest condolences to the Vazquez Family. Most especially to La Senora Lourdes Vazquez, our brother Armando and his wife Maria. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all. Que la paz Y tranquilidad este con todos ustes.

We will miss our dear nephew/cousin he was a man with a desire to give everyone equal rights and loved by all who knew him our family has lost a key member and we can only pray that his wife and children will remember everything he stood for and keep his dreams alive thoughout the course of there lives. He left behind his hopes for the world and making a change and I hope that everyone will do there part to see his dream come true.

With our deepest condolances

The Flores...

I am sorry for the family's loss but also for his loss to the world.

Mario's passing leaves not only a hole in our heart, but also in the progressive movement in Los Angeles. He will be dearly missed. Condolences to the entire Vazquez family from Jan Goodman and Jerry Manpearl.

I remember you as so completely and fully committed, wonderfully intense, with total clarity in your beliefs. I remember having raging debates with you that took place over weeks about some minute detail of philosophy. I remember Cuba. I remember PCL. I remember CASA. And so much more. You truly manifested a warrior spirit for all who were subject to oppression. What a legacy you have left. Well done old "Compa," well done.