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      • Nicole Chavez
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        Nicole Chavez is a breaking and trends writer on CNN's Race and Equality team based in San Antonio, Texas.

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      • When a solo traveler went missing in Peru, it changed her family's lives completely

        By Nicole Chavez, CNN Edited by Braden Goyette, CNN Photographs by Desiree Rios for CNN
        Shortly after his daughter Carla went missing in Peru, Carlos Valpeoz left behind his old life as a contractor in the Texas Hill Country and boarded a plane to find her. He brought only a backpack with him, unsure how long he'd be away from home.
      • Deisi Arreces-Huitz aboard a Greyhound bus from Harlingen to McAllen, Texas on August 21, 2019

        Alone, scared and in a strange country

        By Nicole Chavez, CNN
        Deisi Arreces-Huitz sat quietly in a tiny bus station in South Texas, holding a stack of tickets. Her bus wouldn't come for hours, and she was alone and frightened.
      • Jessica Caraballo, 31, is a Transportation and Security Administration officer at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Her family spoke to CNN at a relative's home in Griffin, GA. From left to right: Daellah Miller, 7, Shalique Caraballo, 29, Jessica Caraballo, 31, and DaMara Miller, 5.

        This family thought their troubles were over. Then the government shutdown left them in limbo.

        By Nicole Chavez, CNN