A man Carlos meets when he first arrives in Stockton, California. He speaks Carlos’s dialect and takes him to a restaurant, where he prepares vegetable soup and chicken. Claro warns Carlos to stay away from the Chinese because they control all of Stockton’s various houses of vice. Later in the book, Carlos encounters Claro leading a workers’ strike and protesting against Japanese strikebreakers. He tells Carlos that the trade union movement in Manila is boycotting Japanese-made products.