Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday that her authorities is suing Google for relabeling the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” for US customers, CBS News reports. The corporate had finished so in Google Maps after President Trump ordered the identify change initially of his Presidential time period.
The lawsuit makes good on Sheinbaum’s February threat that Mexico would “proceed to courtroom” if the corporate didn’t change the identify, which it saved as Gulf of Mexico for customers in Mexico, however switched to “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in areas exterior of the 2 nations. In keeping with a machine-translated transcript of Sheinbaum’s Friday press briefing, she says “the one factor we wish is compliance with the decree issued by the US authorities,” which, she provides, “wouldn’t have the authority to call the whole Gulf, as a result of that’s a world attribution.”
President Sheinbaum continues:
We couldn’t say something about altering the identify of a state, a mountain, or a lake. So, the a part of their territory that corresponds to them may be known as no matter they resolve. The half that corresponds to Mexico can’t be renamed. The half that corresponds to Cuba can’t be renamed, both. So, what we’re saying is, “Google, keep on with what the US authorities permitted.”
Previous to her briefing, Mexico despatched letters to Google asking it to not label its territorial waters as Gulf of America, and Sheinbaum shared a reply from Google VP of presidency affairs and public coverage Cris Turner stating the corporate had no plans to vary its coverage. CBS Information notes that the US Home handed a invoice on Thursday that might codify the identify change.
Google didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s request for remark.