José Raúl Vera López (born 21 June 1945) is a Mexican friar of the Dominican Order.

Vera López is an alumnus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) where he obtained a licentiate in Sacred Theology with a grade of summa cum laude.

In addition to his clerical career, Vera López is an avowed advocate for human rights and social justice.

With the risk for his own safety he expressed his views against abuse of power, corruption, absence of the rule of law and violations of human rights.

Furthermore, he opposes the fact that, although Mexico is not really a poor country, around half of its 110 million people live below the poverty line.