{"id":854,"date":"2026-11-03T21:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2026-11-03T21:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:15:33","slug":"spain-transport-minister-oscar-puente-resigns-urda-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"SPAIN&#8217;S TRANSPORT MINISTER JUST QUIT AFTER THE URDA CRASH KILLED 69! | \u00d3scar Puente walks six days later \u2014 leaked tapes show a high-speed train cleared onto a track that was already blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A RESIGNATION AFTER THE WRECKAGE! Spain&#8217;s Transport Minister \u00d3scar Puente has resigned \u2014 six days after the high-speed train collision near Urda that killed at least <strong>69 people<\/strong> and injured dozens, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c6wydqd4yxdyo\">BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>He announced the decision in Congress on Tuesday evening after outlining new rail safety measures and facing opposition grilling. &#8220;A transport minister in a country like Spain cannot remain in office after <strong>two accidents of this seriousness in less than a year<\/strong>,&#8221; Puente said, also citing a deadly January crash in Andalusia.<\/p>\n<p>The Urda disaster happened when a state-operated Renfe high-speed train smashed into the back of a stationary Iryo train. Leaked audio published in Spanish media appears to show Madrid&#8217;s control centre clearing one high-speed train to move even though another had stopped about <strong>25km (15 miles)<\/strong> ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Puente said he decided to go immediately after the <strong>28 October<\/strong> crash. Opposition parties and some government allies had pressed him to step down. Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez has vowed authorities will &#8220;get to the bottom of every last detail of this tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c6wydqd4yxdyo\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00d3scar Puente walks six days later \u2014 leaked tapes show a high-speed train cleared onto a track that was already blocked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/bb-spain-minister-resigns-1103.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}