Daniel Perez Cueva
Peru emigrant hoped to unify nations
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Daniel Perez Cueva and his family moved from Peru to the USA six years ago.

"This is a family who has worked very hard to get where they are," said Jennie Gironda, a family friend who accompanied the mother to Blacksburg after news of her son's death.

Perez, 21, of Woodbridge, Va., was a junior studying international relations. He was interested in immigration and talked a lot about wanting to unify countries, Gironda said.

Perez, who worked his way through school, had been employed at a CVS in town. He was preparing a final presentation to the French Consulate, where he was trying to get a part-time research job. He had been taking French classes and spoke and wrote the language.

"He was always fighting to come out ahead for his mother and his family," Gironda said.

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