The organization Texas Nicaraguan Community (TNC), through its annual report published on social networks, detailed that in 2024 they recorded a total of 201 deaths of Nicaraguan migrants in Mexico and the United States.
The main cause of the deaths of these migrants, according to the organization’s report, were traffic accidents, with 59 deaths on the roads.
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TNC assessed that these accidents in which Nicaraguan migrants have been involved have been linked to “lack of driving skills in adverse weather conditions and driving at excess speed.”
More than 50 Nicaraguan migrants died from heart attacks
The organization also documented deaths from heart attacks (52), murders (29), cancer (11), stroke (10), covid-19 and others (5).
Likewise, it recorded nine deaths from drowning, seven from drug overdoses, six suicides, six work accidents, three femicides, one abandonment in the desert, one bull attack and two deaths of minors.
Justine Ochoa, director of TNC, confirmed that the number of Nicaraguan people who died in 2024 exceeded, by more than 20%, the number of deaths recorded in 2023, when it stood at 157 deaths.
The migration of Nicaraguans to the United States has increased since the beginning of the sociopolitical crisis in April 2018. TNC has been keeping a record of migrant deaths in Mexico and the United States for three years.
Recently, the organization assured that between 2021 and 2022, with the massive wave of migration of Nicaraguans, they identified as an organization a new line of action, linked to the registration of people “missing, deceased and requiring repatriation.”
