elEconomista laments yesterday's accident in Santiago de Compostela, where an Alvia train derailed. We offer our condolences to the victims of this accident. One of the victims, Enrique Beotas, was a friend in our field and well-known by our team. Faced with this loss, we wish to express our concern for friends and family of those injured or killed in the accident and to all of Galicia.
The best memorial that the victims can receive is a full investigation of what happened yesterday. Besides causing so many deaths, the accident could have serious consequences on Spanish train companies. They are some of the foremost in the world in railway transportation.
The consortium of companies that bid on the Ave train project in Brazil may lose because of this incidence. So there needs to be a full investigation that finds out exactly what happened in Galicia.
