The three key audio recordings of the tragedy — two exchanges between the driver of the Iryo train that was stopped on the tracks and the Atocha rail controller at the control center inside Atocha station in Madrid, and another one between the AVE driver coming up behind and the same controller — clearly show the mistakes that were made ahead of an accident that has killed at least 68 people and injured scores more. It is one of the biggest tragedies in European high-speed rail, and the second one in Spain in a year after 35 years of operation without a single fatal accident.

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The prime minister is a candidate again. And it shows. He speaks fluidly, dodges jabs, and stands his ground with a smile. Pedro Sánchez, who seemed somewhat weakened after his brother’s conviction and the Ceuta migrant crisis, appears to have been energized by the general election of November 29, which will be his sixth. “These elections can be summed up in a very simple idea: either the past moves forward, or Spain moves forward,” he says.

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