
Cindy Carcamo
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Cindy Carcamo is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, where she worked for the Food section, covered immigration issues as a Metro reporter and, before that, served as Arizona bureau chief and national correspondent in the Southwest. A Los Angeles native, she has reported in Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, and previously was a reporter for the Orange County Register.
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