Óscar Puente resigned. He did so, moreover, after undergoing a very tough appearance that he could have avoided. No one could force him, once he had made the decision to leave, to endure the vileness of the pack, but he appeared, gave all the explanations, responded to the criticism, and then, yes, he left.
The political stature of the now former minister has been confirmed, while the miserable condition of those who, once again, have played with the dead has become evident.
They did so after the attacks of March 11, 2004, lying shamelessly and without embarrassment about their authorship, placing their electoral bet on the most repugnant lie: 192 corpses and more than 2,000 injured in exchange for a handful of votes.
They repeated the play in 2006, with the derailment of the Valencia metro, with 43 dead and 47 injured.
Those who now demand to know the truth, erased part of the content of the black boxes the same night of the accident and made the breakdown book of the crashed train disappear.
That was not enough for them, and they even hired a communication consultancy to prepare the technicians' statements, instructing them with an argument that shielded political management, shifting responsibility to the deceased driver.
The victims and their families went through a real ordeal until, fourteen years later, four executives of Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat Valenciana were recognized for their responsibility.
The same happened with the Angrois tragedy, in July 2013, which caused the death of 80 people, injuring more than 140.
There, the famous ERTMS existed, but it was disconnected by political decision, to avoid delays. Of course, the Galician president, one Alberto Núñez Feijóo, systematically refused to open an investigation committee in the Galician Parliament.
Then came the infamous protocols of shame and the 7,291 deaths abandoned in residences. The explanation, typical of a psychopath, of a truly soulless person, is that they were going to die anyway, that Quirón did not have room for so many old people.
It is impossible to forget the 234 deaths due to the DANA in Valencia, victims of the incompetence of a minister and the absence of a president, absorbed by greater tasks while those he should protect were drowning.
That said, he kept Feijóo informed telepathically, because the phone showed neither calls nor messages, and they forced him to resign a year later, when the families' pain turned into a clamor during the state funeral.
With that history, the Popular Party had the audacity to demand political responsibility from a minister who, from the very beginning, faced the music and, most importantly, provided all the information at his disposal.
And that is where Óscar Puente made a mistake. He should never have revealed what happened at the Atocha Control Center.
He should have appeared before the press saying he had no idea why two trains had collided. What bad luck. What a coincidence.
He should have said that neither AEMET nor the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation had warned him and that he did not know Es-Alert existed.
The sad thing is that the pack of jackals from the Popular Party and Vox were joined by some voices from that thing they call the left of the left, which is not well known where it is.
The minister blamed a worker, they clamored indignantly, when the only explanation for what happened is precisely the succession of erroneous instructions that emanated from the Control Center.
That is why the trains collided, and that is what the minister said. We can then discuss whether there should be more staff, more resources, or more training, but the public had every right to know the immediate cause after the accident.
Óscar Puente has given a lesson in dignity. Others have chosen to remain what they are, a pack of jackals.
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