Gustavo Castillo García
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, February 5, 2026, p. 11
The defense of Felipe de Jesús Díaz Gómez, railway conductor, and Ricardo Mendoza Cerón, chief dispatcher of the Transisthmian Train that crashed on December 28, promoted an amparo trial against the connection to the process and will request that new specialized expert reports be carried out to determine the causes of the accident that left 14 passengers dead and more than 90 injured, considering that the data recorded by the black box contradicts the results of the studies. carried out by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
The employees of the Transisthmian Train were accused by the Federal Public Ministry of culpable homicide and negligent injuries, under the hypothesis of commission by omission, when the FGR personnel considered that both allowed a speed higher than that authorized at kilometer 230 in the municipality of Asunción de Ixtaltepec, Oaxaca.
Both employees are defended by members of the Federal Institute of Public Defender, who have already promoted an amparo trial against the connection to the process and appealed the justified precautionary measure of preventive detention ordered by Judge Diana Isabel Invens Cruz.
In addition, the public defenders will request proceedings related to the inspection of the cars and the locomotive that derailed to confront the versions that the FGR experts indicated in the document of consignment with which they obtained the arrest warrants for Díaz Gómez and Mendoza Cerón and for which they are now imprisoned.
Meanwhile, federal sources reported that data from the Ministry of the Navy indicate that the rehabilitation of line Z (where the mishap occurred) “was carried out in accordance with railway regulations, and during the works, rails, sleepers and ballast were replaced with new materials, the subballast was renewed and high-resistance fixings were installed to secure the gauge of the track.”
