What to do about toxic SpaceX debris washing ashore in Tamaulipas: Thursday’s mañanera recapped

The find of abstraction debris successful Tamaulipas and Mexico’s tendency to promptly participate into a “global agreement” with the United States were among the topics President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir astatine her Thursday greeting property conference.

Here is simply a recap of the president’s June 19 mañanera.

Elon Musk’s abstraction debris washes up successful Tamaulipas

A newsman from Grupo Milenio noted that the Milenio paper published a study connected Thursday astir abstraction debris that was recovered connected Playa Bagdad, a formation successful Tamaulipas conscionable southbound of the borderline with Texas and the SpaceX Starbase rocket motorboat facility.

The Milenio nonfiction was published nether the header “Musk’s abstraction debris places astatine hazard the lives of animals and radical successful the northbound of Tamaulipas.”

In the article, Milenio reported that a metallic vessel was recovered connected Playa Bagdad, adding that the instrumentality was “preliminarily identified” arsenic a “pressurized vessel with phosphorous remains.”

The paper said that the vessel was portion of the Super Heavy motorboat conveyance of the SpaceX Starship. SpaceX is majority-owned by Elon Musk, the company’s laminitis and CEO.

#OchoColumnas | Basura espacial de Musk pone en riesgo la vida de animales y personas… y le explota otro cohete 🚀

La inhalación o ingestión de este químico puede afectar órganos internos, en peculiar el hígado, los riñones y el sistema nervioso.https://t.co/Tlz8tCCXYX

— Milenio (@Milenio) June 19, 2025

“The phosphorous contained successful the vessel located successful the Playa Bagdad country — particularly successful its achromatic signifier — is highly reactive upon interaction with oxygen and tin origin terrible tegument injuries and represents an biology risk,” Milenio reported.

“The inhalation oregon ingestion of this chemic tin impact interior organs, peculiarly the liver, the kidneys and the tense system. Even tiny quantities tin beryllium lethal if they participate the body. In addition, if it is not managed correctly, phosphorous tin contaminate bodies of h2o and impact marine animals. Its degradation successful earthy environments is dilatory and dangerous,” Milenio said.

The tank, Milenio said, “has not been the lone discovery” connected the seashore of bluish Tamaulipas successful caller weeks.

“In the past 4 weeks, hundreds of metallic and integrative remains of assorted sizes person been swept by the tide from the Gulf of Mexico to the coast, aft the ninth motorboat trial of Musk’s aerospace company,” the paper said, referring to Starship’s trial formation connected May 27.

The “failure” of that trial formation “has placed ecological equilibrium astatine risk, threatening the lives of carnal taxon and besides people,” Milenio said.

Sheinbaum said she had seen the newspaper’s report.

Sheinbaum told reporters that the Digital Agency and Environment Ministry would look into the rocket debris problem. (Presidencia)

“This greeting I asked if it could beryllium reviewed by the [government’s] Digital Agency,” she said, noting that the bureau has work for definite aerospace and telecommunications matters.

Sheinbaum said that the Environment Ministry and different ministries would besides investigate.

She said that her authorities would study backmost erstwhile it was successful a presumption to bash so.

Mexico wants to motion a ‘global agreement’ with US ‘very soon’

Sheinbaum reiterated that she had a “very good” telephone with United States President Donald Trump connected Tuesday portion she was astatine the G7 Summit successful Canada, which Trump near earlier than expected.

She besides noted erstwhile again that she and Trump had agreed successful rule connected a “global agreement” betwixt Mexico and the United States that covers migration, information and trade.

Sheinbaum spoke astir the planned pact connected Wednesday, though she referred to it arsenic a “general agreement,” alternatively than a “global” one.

Though they were incapable to conscionable successful idiosyncratic astatine the G7 Summit aft Trump near early, Sheinbaum spoke with the US person by telephone connected Tuesday. (Donald Trump/Facebook)

On Thursday, she said that “our objective” is for the statement to beryllium signed “very soon.”

“… It has to beryllium soon,” she said earlier indicating that she was seeking the finalization of an statement successful coming months.

Sheinbaum didn’t accidental whether her authorities would importune connected the removal of tariffs connected Mexican steel, aluminum and cars arsenic portion of a “global agreement” betwixt Mexico and the U.S., but it would beryllium logical for it to bash so.

‘I’m arrogant to correspond Mexico’

A newsman asked the president what “emotions” she experienced portion interacting with different satellite leaders astatine this week’s G7 Summit successful Kananaskis, Alberta.

“I deliberation that the astir important happening is to cognize that you’re representing Mexico,” Sheinbaum responded.

“This is not a idiosyncratic issue. If you deliberation it’s a idiosyncratic issue, you person your caput successful the clouds,” she said.

“The astir important happening present is that the president of Mexico represents our people, our culture, our history, our nation, our homeland and for that crushed you person to beryllium precise proud,” Sheinbaum said.

“So I’m arrogant to correspond Mexico. … The important happening is to clasp Mexico’s sanction up high, always,” she said.

“So it’s not a idiosyncratic issue, it’s the pridefulness of representing our homeland, Sheinbaum said.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])