The Texas Nicaraguan Community (TNC) organization reported through its social media that last week they recorded the deaths of Nicaraguan migrants Jarelys Sáenz Centeno and Rolando Varela Gómez, who resided in the United States.
Jarelys Sáenz Centeno, the organization explained, was originally from the Chagüite Grande community of El Ocote, Sébaco, Matagalpa. She had been in the United States for three years and died this Sunday, August 25, in the morning, when she was in the apartment where she lived in Michigan, United States.
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The cause of Sáenz’s death, TNC said, is currently unknown, but they hope to provide an update on the case in the coming hours.
They ask for help for repatriation
Nicaraguan migrant Rolando Varela Gómez, 41, died on August 21 and his family requested, through TNC, support to repatriate his body from Houston, United States.
Varela Gómez, one of his relatives confirmed to TNC, worked at a construction company in Houston and, on August 21, after feeling exhausted, decided to rest in his vehicle at around 3 p.m., but an hour later his colleagues found him without vital signs.
The man was originally from Dipilto, Nueva Segovia, but before migrating to the United States he lived for more than 20 years in the community of San Nicolás, in the municipality of San Fernando, in Nueva Segovia.
“His family is currently going through a difficult time, both emotionally and financially, and is asking the community and authorities for help to be able to transport Rolando Varela Gómez’s body back to Nicaragua and give him a Christian burial in his hometown,” TNC said in its post on social media.
Those wishing to help, the organization explained, can contact the family at +505 8359-9649, +1 267-993-2212 or +1 979-637-8491.
In the first half of the year, according to TNC, a total of 94 Nicaraguan migrants died in the United States. A total of 32 died in traffic accidents, 23 from heart attacks, 13 were murdered, 11 from other illnesses, eight drowned, four committed suicide, one died in a work accident, one from medical negligence and one accidentally.
