Young Cuban dies in traffic accident in Suriname

The Cuban guyGilberto José Mora Ávila, 29 years old,lost his life in a tragic traffic accident occurred in the city of Paramaribo, Suriname, last Sunday.

Mora, a native of the province of Holguín, was driving a motorcycle on Sunday afternoon and, at the intersection of two streets, he hit the left door of a car,authorities reported.

According to the police report, at the intersection of the two streets, the Cuban immigrant did not pay attention to the traffic on the priority road - where the car was traveling - and the severe collision occurred in which he was fatally injured.

When the ambulance arrived, the young man no longer showed signs of life. A doctor officially certified his death.

Mora had been in the South American country for less than a year, where he arrived last April, andleaves wife and son. According to local media, his body was handed over by the police to his family.

The motorcycle that the Cuban was driving was seized for a new inspection while the investigation of the tragic accident is carried out.

His couple,Rosmery Devorah Osorio Pupo, shared a movingmessage on Facebook, accompanied by a video of moments lived with Mora.

“I don't have words to say how I feel. You were the love of my life and the most beautiful thing that happened to me in my life, you taught me so many things and so many beautiful moments that I spent with you. You are and will be the love of my life, my partner, my everything, I still don't understand what happened, I think that everything is not true and that this is not happening, this is a nightmare that I never thought I would go through. My strength, my child, my everything, so many goals and so many dreams we had. May God have you in heaven with all the light that you deserve,” said Osorio.

The accident in which Mora lost his life occurred two weeks afteranother Cuban died in a road incident in the same capital of Suriname. Emir Castro González, 43 years old, a native of Cárdenas, Matanzas, and father of two children, was driving a motorcycle when he collided with a truck and died.

Many Cuban immigrants have arrived in Suriname in recent years, as part of theunstoppable exodus in which hundreds of thousands of people have left Cuba, due to the deep economic crisis that the country is going through.

Some have settled in the South American country, while others undertake the journey to the southern border of the United States.

In two years, at least 533,000 Cubans arrived in the United States., a figure equivalent to 4.8% of the 11.1 million inhabitants of the island, as revealedAFP taking official data as a source.