Mexico has sued Google about the name change of the Gulf of Mexico, says President

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico said on Friday morning that her government had sued Google because of the company’s decision to label the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” ​​- a spit that goes back to February, when the Trump administration issued An executive order To rename the Golf.

The order led some local authorities and legislators in the United States To embrace the use of the name on official documents. It also ensured that Google implemented the change on its cards. Users in the United States would see the water body with the new name, while people in Mexico Gulf of Mexico, the company, would continue to see announced In a statement. The rest of the world would see both names.

But for Mrs. Sheinbaum, that once Made funny That the United States can be renamed ‘Mexican America’, even that compromise exceeds a line. The one -sided attempt to rename the Golf has provoked spot and anger in Mexico, where Many people have a negative opinion from Mr. Trump but Generally approve Mrs. Sheinbaum’s cooling -headed approach to navigate his series of threats, according to recent polls.

“What we say is:” Google, stick to what the American government has approved, “she told reporters, referring to the order, which only renew maritime regions that are checked by the United States – and not the entire Golf.

The Trump government is ample right to rename its own territory, but the maritime zones under the control of Mexico or Cuba cannot be again labeled by the United States or anyone else, she said. “We would not have a matter of telling them to rename a state, a mountain or a lake,” she added.

In February, Cris Turner, the Vice -President of Public Affairs and the Public Policy at Google, sent a letter to the Mexican government that justified the change and confirmed that people who use Google Maps in Mexico would continue to see Golf van Mexico.

“This is consistent with our normal operational procedure to think about our platforms geographical names prescribed by various authoritative government sources,” said the letter, also in places where those sources “can differ.”

The next day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico said in another letter to Mr. Turner that again labeling the entire Golf, even for American users, “exceeds the powers of a national authority or private entity.” Mexico, the ministry said, would take all the legal steps that considered it appropriate.

Mrs. Sheinbaum did not say on Friday when or where exactly her administration set the court case against Google, but she added that there had already been a ‘first resolution’. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico did not immediately respond to a request for comment.