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Gulf of Mexico, between Mexico and the US
After several insistence for Google to reveal the decision to call “Gulf of America” to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mexican government will sue the technology giant.
In January, Google Maps began to show Mexico’s Gulf to US users following an anecdotal episode, which seemed to be a Donald Trump joke.
In fact, the change of Gulf’s name in all US official documents was one of the presidential decrees that Donald Trump issued on the first day of your second term.
“According to the president’s instructions, the Gulf of Mexico will be officially known as Gulf of America And the highest peak in North America will be named Mount McKinley again, ”the interior department said in a statement.
Following Trump’s executive order, Google Maps changed Mexico’s Gulf name to US users. In Mexico, the Gulf keeps the original name, but in the rest of the world (including Portugal), which is not subject to Trump’s sovereignty, The two names are now shown.
Who did not find joke to “joke” was the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumwho, soon after the change, wrote a letter to Google to ask the decision to be reconsidered.
The Mexican president, who had previously threatened Advance to the courts, it has announced now that Mexico will sue Google.
According to, Sheinbaum has decided to advance with the action after Cris TurnerGoogle’s vice president of government affairs, having in the X/Twitter that the company had no plans to change its policy.
Mexico argues, however 49% of the air mass air. 46% of the Gulf is the territory of the United States, and the remaining 5% is controlled by Cuba.
Sheinbaum points out that Trump’s executive order applies only to the United States Continental Platform: “The US government calls ‘Gulf of America’ only apart from the continental shelf from the US, not to the whole Gulf ”.
By the time Donald Trump first mentioned the idea of changing the name of the Gulf, Sheinbaum reacted with sense of humorreplying that in this case in North America, as stated in a historical document of 1814 which is on the basis of the founding of Mexico.
The Mexican president now seems to have failed to make a joke of Trump’s “joke”, which after all was not-and the matter became a serious case, to be decided in court.
