The drama behind the curve
“We are evaluating removing some curves,” Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday morning. It was not a casual comment. Behind it are 14 lives that were extinguished in December 2025 when the Interoceanic Train flew off the rails in Oaxaca.
The president made it clear that the case is no longer hers: “You have to ask the Prosecutor’s Office that,” she responded when asked about the judge who released the driver and the dispatcher. Diana Isabel Ivens Cruz, from Chiapas, approved the comprehensive repair of the damage. And with that, the criminal action ended.
What is in your hands
But Sheinbaum didn’t wash his hands entirely. “What’s up to us is to make it safer,” he said. And here comes the concrete thing: they are evaluating removing dangerous curves on the route. They are awaiting approval from an international certification agency.
Meanwhile, the train continues to operate only with cargo. The latest technical review is in progress.
The human cost
Prosecutor Ernestina Godoy reported that there are already 145 people—114 adults and 31 minors—who have received full reparation for the damage. That extinguished the criminal action against the two detained workers.
The FGR ruled out structural failure in AMLO’s flagship work and exonerated the Secretary of the Navy. The official verdict: crew speeding.
Political theater has its toughest scenes when decisions affect real lives.
There are no easy villains or cheap conspiracies here. There’s a cursed curve, a train that was going too fast, and broken families. And now, a presidential promise to straighten the path.
