Duarte Bateman
Carmona-Cruz is the community engagement director at the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, and lives in Oakland.
Antonio Alonso decided it was time to flee Honduras when his older brother told him he didn’t want to lose the only sibling he had left. Threats against Alonso had intensified in recent years as he insisted on investigating his other brother’s murder, forcing him to move from one city to another. A cycle of violence has been on the rise in Alonso’s home country since the U.S. supported the coup against then-President Manuel Zelaya in 2009. In March 2019, after five years of being on the run for his life in Honduras, Alonso packed up three pairs of pants, five shirts, underwear and hygiene supplies and started his journey to the United States.