[2] Vargas attempted to have a career in boxing, but that ended quickly because of a detached retina that helped him during the major drafts of young men to fight in Vietnam.
He did this as part of larger efforts to make public institutions more accountable and accessible to San Francisco's communities of color and low-income people.
This effort by a diverse coalition of students, activists and faculty resulted in the nation's first School of Ethnic Studies, at San Francisco State University.
The committee set up donation centers in the San Francisco Mission to benefit those affected in the earthquake, however the ruling Nicaraguan party headed by Anastasio Somoza Debayle was criticized for not distributing the aid received.
To prepare, Vargas trained in martial arts and learned to fly small planes through their hourly rental at an aviation facility in San Francisco.
There is no neutral or middle ground, and we must join the struggle[1] On his 70th birthday, a huge celebration for Roberto Vargas was perform in the street of the Mission.