Mexico sues Google for labeling Gulf of Mexico as ‘Gulf of America’
Mexico President Claudia Shinbom said on Friday that Mexico filed a lawsuit against the technology giant on Google because of its description of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, a change of US President Donald Trump through the executive order.
Shinbom did not provide the details of the lawsuit during her daily journalistic briefing, but she said that Google had been sued.
The Ministry of Foreign Relations in Mexico had previously sent messages to Google asking her not to name the Mexican territorial waters as the Gulf of America.
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The water body shared the borders between the United States and Mexico. Trump’s order only carries power within the American Mexico, as well as other countries and international bodies, they do not have to learn about changing the name.
Mexico argues that the Gulf of America should only apply to part of the Gulf on the continental shelf of the United States.
In February, Shinabum shared a letter from Cris Turner, Vice President of government and Public Policy at Google, saying that Google will not change the policy that was identified after Trump announced the water group in the Gulf of America.
As the Gulf appears in Google Maps like the Gulf of America inside the United States, like the Gulf of Mexico inside Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico (the Gulf of America) elsewhere. Turner said in his message that the company was using the Gulf of America to follow up “long, fair maps policies and continuing in all regions.”
The Gulf of Mexico bore this name for more than 400 years. The Associated Press indicates by its original name, with the recognition of the new name chosen by Trump. In February, the White House moved to prevent it from being among a small group of journalists to cover Trump in the Oval Office or on the first air force, with separate ability to cover it in the events in the Eastern Chamber.
AP filed a lawsuit against three Trump administration officials on reaching presidential events, noting freedom of expression in the Federal judge’s demand to stop the ban on journalists.
A White House judge ordered last month to regain the arrival of the full AP to cover the presidential events, stressing the reasons for the first amendment that the government cannot punish the news organization to the content of its discourse. Giving the judge’s decision to relief in emergency situations during the case.
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
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2025-05-10 22:20:00
