Gonzalo Vázquez Vela

{{Short description|Mexican politician}}

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Gonzalo Vázquez Vela (July 3, 1893 - November 7, 1963) was a Mexican politician. He was governor of Veracruz{{cite book|last1=Dulles|first1=John W. F.|title=Yesterday in Mexico: A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936|date=2014|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=9780292771789|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nj8AwAAQBAJ&q=Gonzalo+V%C3%A1zquez+Vela&pg=PT679|accessdate=23 December 2017|language=en}} and became leader of the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) in 1935.{{cite book|last1=Neufeld|first1=Stephen|last2=Matthews|first2=Michael|last3=Beezley|first3=William H.|title=Mexico in Verse: A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power|date=2015|publisher=University of Arizona Press|isbn=9780816531325|page=227|language=en}}