The heavy lifting of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year mandate in Mexico continues to pose problems for his successor, Claudia Sheinbaum. The Ismo train, located in the south of the country, was derailed this Sunday with a loss of 13 people died and … 98 injured.
A tragedy which adds to other problems of the projects promoted by López Obrador between 2018 and 2024. The former president inaugurated an airport north of Mexico City that closed the year having transported only 13% of estimated traveler targets.
Another case is that of the Dos Bocas refinery, which also fails to produce as initially planned and whose cost has been a headache for Sheinbaum’s inherited finances. And at the beginning, the refinery would cost $8 billion and its cost ultimately amounted to more than $20 billion.
This Sunday’s train tragedy took place in Oaxaca, where the training was derailed. “As a result of this accident, 139 people are out of danger, 98 were injured, of which 36 are receiving hospital medical treatment and the rest are not seriously injured, and unfortunately 13 people lost their lives,” said the Secretary of the Navy, in charge of the operation of the train.
On his X account, Sheinbaum confirmed these figures, specifying that five of the injured are in serious condition.
The Secretary of the Navy informs me that 13 people unfortunately died in the Interoceanic Train accident; 98 people were injured, five of them seriously. The injured are in the IMSS hospitals of Matías Romero and Salina Cruz, as well as IMSS-Bienestar in…
– Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein) December 29, 2025
“The injured are in the IMSS hospitals in Matías Romero and Salina Cruz, as well as IMSS-Bienestar in Juchitán and Ixtepec,” he said.
Sheinbaum reported that he asked the Secretary of the Navy, Raymundo Pedro Morales, and the Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior, Félix Arturo Medina, to go there to personally attend to the families, as well as delegates from IMSS and IMSS Bienestar.
In a video posted on social networks, a passenger on the damaged train said he had the impression that the formation was traveling very fast.
“We felt that the train was coming very hard, we don’t know if it lacked brakes, we don’t know. But hey, we don’t know, thank God our car is the one up there. “We were okay, a little beat up, but it’s OK,” he said.
Héctor Saúl Tellez, opposition deputy demanded the suspension of train servicesbecause it is not safe and puts people’s lives in danger. He also requested an international opinion to determine whether or not the project is safe and whether it should continue to operate.
“We immediately demand that the Mexican government proceed to suspend services of the interoceanic train project, because it is unsafe and endangers people’s lives,” he said.
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