Nicaraguan migrant Carlos Alberto Lorente Córdoba, 44, became the first Pinolero reported dead in the United States. The Texas Nicaraguan Community (TNC) organization, through its social networks, detailed that death was due to a sudden heart attack.
Lorente Córdoba was originally from Estelí and died in New Orleans, United States, on January 2.
TNC explained that the Nicaraguan worked in the construction sector in the United States and his death took his co-workers by surprise.
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The family of this Nicaraguan migrant, according to TNC, “is in the difficult situation of repatriating a loved one.”
The organization has not yet given details about the accounts or platforms that the family has enabled so that the population can support with donations for the repatriation of Lorente Córdoba’s body.
More than 200 Nicas died in Mexico and the United States
The year 2024, according to the Conservancy’s annual report, closed with a total of 201 Nicaraguan migrants dead in Mexico and the United States. The death toll was a record compared to that organization’s records in 2023, when it documented 157 deaths.
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The main causes of these deaths recorded last year were traffic accidents, with 59 deaths on the roads, and heart attacks, which totaled 52 deaths.
The organization also documented deaths from murders (29), cancer (11), stroke (10), drownings (9), drug overdoses (7), suicides (6), workplace accidents (6), covid and other diseases ( 5), femicides (3), abandonment in the desert (1), bull attack (1) and deaths of minors (2).
