The official version and the rails that don’t add up
The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) has already issued its verdict: the derailment of the Interoceanic Train was not due to a problem on the track. Meanwhile, passenger service remains suspended. Does anyone else see the contradiction?
Claudia Sheinbaum, in her morning conference from the National Palace, announced that work on reopening and certification continues. The speech is one of progress, but the facts show a stationary train.
“The company TUV International continues to work, together with the Railway Transport Agency and the Interoceanic Train to be able to resolve all the suggestions that are being raised,” said the president.
For cargo it already operates. For people, no. The promise is to wait for “all suggestions” for certification to be fulfilled. It sounds reasonable, until you remember that the FGR already exonerated the infrastructure.
Repairing the damage: Quick closure or real justice?
Rosa Icela Rodríguez, from Segob, declared the repair process completed for 225 affected passengers. Among them, 14 people died and around 100 were injured.
“Absolutely all of them were attended to and the damage was repaired,” he commented.
An administrative procedure closed with bureaucratic efficiency. But when a train derails and people die, the questions about why outweigh the signed checks.
Sheinbaum reaffirms that “all necessary measures” are taken to guarantee safety. Memory is short: a little over a year ago another freight train derailed in Nayarit. The promises of then sound identical to those of today.
The truth hurts more than a broken bone: you can compensate victims, but if you don’t fix what really went wrong, you’re just buying time until the next accident.
