Adamuz: a month of lies and infamy to cover up those responsible for 46 deaths

This afternoon marks one month since the Adamuz train tragedy, a derailment of two trains that resulted in 46 deaths.

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I would like to say that this month has served some purpose in terms of assigning responsibility for what happened and preventing it from happening again, but that is not the case. This month it has become clear that the Minister of Transport, the socialist Óscar Puente, lied when he stated that the section of track where the accident occurred had been completely renovated, and he also lied when he dismissed as "hoaxes" true news stories that exposed the shortcomings in track maintenance, which is the responsibility of the government through a public company, ADIF.

This accident has also served to highlight the degradation of Spanish infrastructure due to the mismanagement of Pedro Sánchez's government, a fact that has been denounced by railway professionals and experts without the government having done absolutely anything to acknowledge the situation or correct it. Yesterday we learned that far from improving the situation, after the Adamuz accident delays are now affecting 80% of high-speed trains in Renfe, another public company dependent on the government, due to the condition of the tracks.

Instead of resolving these problems, the government has focused its efforts on covering up its responsibility for this serious accident, once again prioritizing its own political survival over the well-being of citizens, amidst a situation that has considerably eroded the confidence of users of the Spanish rail network. This doesn't seem to concern a government that is now spending its time threatening social media users with censorship following the wave of criticism directed at the government for this accident. A response typical of an authoritarian regime.

The icing on the cake of this shameless display was seen a week ago with Sánchez's indecent appearance before Congress to discuss this accident, in which, besides lying with absolute brazenness (once again), he settled the matter by attacking the opposition and the media. In the end, as happened before with the delay in sending aid to the Valencia floods in 2024 or with the national blackout of 2025, Sánchez's government never considers itself responsible for anything it does and always resolves all the problems it creates by threatening those who have the duty to oversee the government's actions in a democracy: the political opposition, the judges, and the media.

This month has served as an opportunity for Sánchez to humiliate the victims of the accident and laugh at all Spaniards, making it clear that his style of governing consists of raising taxes to record levels of revenue, in exchange for increasingly deteriorating public services, while the government is besieged by constant corruption scandals that reveal where the money goes that should have been used for essential things like road maintenance. The conclusion we can draw from this month is that corruption kills and this government has its hands stained with the blood of 46 Spaniards who died a month ago in a tragedy that could have been avoided if Sánchez and his ministers had done their jobs properly instead of engaging in self-promotion and propaganda.

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Photo: Efe.