Cuban truck driver from Miami who had been missing for two days is found alive in a hospital

Marcelo H. Corvalán, a Cuban truck driver residing in Miami, was found alive on Tuesday in a hospital, after being missing for more than 48 hours while on a transport route in the Orlando area.

Friends and family had reported him missing after he stopped giving any signs of life, according to journalist Univisión Javier Díaz in a post on Facebook.

They finally managed to locate him after several calls to the police, but the driver was found in a hospital, not in his vehicle.

The Corvalán truck was found abandoned. "The cargo was from Amazon, but it never arrived," the post specifies.

The driver himself does not remember what happened during the time he was missing, which keeps the investigation into the circumstances of the incident open.

"At the moment, it is unclear whether he had a medical issue or if it was a possible assault," the journalist commented in his post.

The case has raised alarm within the community of Cuban truck drivers in South Florida, who for weeks have been increasingly worried about insecurity on highways and rest areas.

The most serious case is that of Cuban truck driver Alejandro Jacomino González, 41 years old and a resident of Port St. Lucie, Florida, who disappeared on April 17 while transporting luxury vehicles from the port of Brunswick, Georgia, to Miami.

His body was found deceased in a coastal area of Georgia on April 29, with the FBI investigating the case as a possible kidnapping involving cargo theft, according to local media in Florida.

That case raised alarms about the vulnerability of Cuban truckers in the rest areas of U.S. highways, where, according to the Department of Transportation, there is only one safe parking space for every 11 trucks.

Additionally, 75% of cargo thefts in the country occur in unsecured parking lots, according to that same institution.

Fernando Espinosa from America Auto Transport described the situation in these areas: "In places like ours, you can look around and see that there is no camera, no security guard patrolling, no protection whatsoever."

The family of the truck driver Jacomino González, found dead had publicly called for justice upon learning of his passing.

In the case of Corvalán, authorities have yet to determine whether the driver suffered a medical emergency or was the victim of an assault, and the investigation remains ongoing.