President Claudia Sheinbaum, from Mexico, said Friday morning, her government had sued Google for the company’s decision to label the Gulf of Mexico as ‘Gulf de América’, a dispute that dates back to February, when the Trump administration issued Rame.
The order led some local governments and legislators in the United States to adopt the use of the name in official documents. He also made Google implement the change in his maps. Users in the United States would see the body of water with the new name while people in Mexico would continue to see the Gulf of Mexico, the company announced in a statement. The rest of the world would see both names.
But for Mrs. Sheinbaum, who joked playfully that the United States can be able to name “Mexican America”, only that commitment crosses a line. The unilateral attempt to change the name of the Gulf has caused ridicule and anger in Mexico, where many people have a negative opinion of Mr. Trump, but generally approves the cold head approach of Mrs. Sheinbaum to navigate their threat series, according to recent surveys.
“What we are saying is:” Google, according to what the United States government has approved, “journalists told the order, that only maritime regions controlled the United States, and not to the entire gulf.
The Trump administration is entitled to change the name of its own territory, but the maritime areas that are under the control of Mexico or Cuba cannot be related by the United States or any other person, he said. “We would not have any business to tell them to change the name of a state, a mountain or a lake,” he added.
In February, Cris Turner, vice president of government affairs and public policies in Google, sent a letter to the Mexican government that justifies the change and confirmed that people who use Google Maps in Mexico Wolde to see the Gulf of Mexico.
“This is consistent with our normal operational procedure to reflect on our platforms geographical names prescribed by different authorized government sources,” said the letter, even in places where these sources “may differ.”
The next day, Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in another letter to Mr. Turner that the revarization of the entire gulf, even for US users, “exceeds the powers of any national authority or private entity.” Mexico, said the ministry, would take any legal action that would consider appropriate.
Mrs. Sheinbaum did not say Friday when or where exactly her administration brought the demand against Google, but added that she already had a “first resolution.” A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
