Cuban

A Cuban died and another was injured last Sunday in a traffic accident in the municipality of Cedros, located in the department of Francisco Morazán (Honduras). According to the page of Facebook The Scissorsthese migrants are natives of Río Cauto, in the province of Granma and resided in the Central American country.

The Cuban who died, whose last name has not been revealed, was identified as Adrián, while Ivannis Aleaga Labrada is “stable, with no danger to his life” at the Teaching Hospital in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. “Family members are aware and in contact with the people who are helping him,” said La Tijera.

The National Directorate of Roads and Transportation informed local media that the motorcycle on which the Cubans were traveling suffered “an oversight.” One of the injured died at the scene and the other was taken to the nearest hospital.

The accident occurred 247 kilometers from the Honduran municipality of Villanueva, in the department of Cortés, where Aleaga Labrada had settled a long time ago in search of a better future for him and his family, who is still on the Island.

Local authorities have also not reported any contact with relatives for the possible repatriation of Adrián’s body.

The Cuban Embassy in Honduras has not yet released a statement about the accident. Local authorities have also not reported any contact with relatives for the possible repatriation of Adrián’s body.

Honduras is used daily by thousands of migrants trying to reach the United States irregularly. Until February 25 of this year, 4,635 migrants from the Island entered irregularly. In 2023, 545,043 foreigners transited. That year, at the top of the list were Venezuela with 228,889, Cuba (85,969), Haiti (82,249), Ecuador (46,086) and Colombia (13,136).

One of the new routes through which migrants enter Honduras is that of Trojes and Las Manos, in the department of El Paraíso, on the border with Nicaragua. There are days when, in the Honduran municipality of Danlí, the number of foreigners transiting through the country has exceeded 5,000, according to official sources.

Adrián’s death adds to the statistics of Cubans who have died in recent months while passing through Honduras. Last October, a 52-year-old woman from the island died from a heart attack on a bus in the municipality of Quimistan, in the department of Santa Bárbara.

This newspaper also recorded the death of Cuban judoka Osvaldo Bernal Mutis after suffering a heart attack on August 19 in El Paraíso, Honduras, while trying to reach the United States. The $5,500 transfer of the former athlete to the Island was paid for in part by the relatives, who only raised less than $2,000 through the GoFundMe platform.

As they pass through Honduras, Cubans have also denounced the collection of fines by the immigration authorities and extortion by the police, who demand that they pay $20 at checkpoints, as they have warned in their testimonies to 14 interveneHondurans like Rigoberto, a worker at the Jesús Esta Vivo evangelization center, of the Immaculate Conception church in Danlí, Honduras.