Mexico Metropolis, Mexico – The Mexican authorities introduced on Thursday that it’d pursue authorized motion towards Google for renaming the Gulf of Mexico because the Gulf of America on its maps.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated that the worldwide tech firm has made a “mistake” that contradicts U.S. President Donald Trump’s decree and wrongfully imposes the brand new identify to Mexico’s continental demarcation.
“The one we’re having a dispute with proper now’s Google. They already responded to the letter, and we replied to them once more, and if crucial, we are going to file a civil lawsuit. As a result of in the USA, will probably be ‘Gulf of America,’ and somewhere else, ‘Gulf of Mexico,” she stated.
On January 20, President Trump instructed the federal authorities to take actions to rename the physique of water surrounded by Mexico, US and Cuba as Gulf of America to “honor American greatness.”
Nonetheless, as Sheinbaum underscored throughout her morning briefing, Trump’s decree is proscribed to the U.S. continental shelf bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida making Google’s renaming of your entire Gulf a mistake.
Days after Trump’s decree, the Sheinbaum administration issued a letter to Google outlining her considerations. Thursday, Sheinbaum stated that Google had dismissed Mexico’s urges, pushing her authorities to pursue authorized motion.
“In the event that they maintain insisting, we’re additionally contemplating even a lawsuit, as a result of they’re even naming the Mexican territory, which is our continental shelf,” she added. “It’s already being seen, analyzed, what this is able to imply on the a part of the Authorized Advisory.”
Mexico and the U.S. have been in an virtually fixed diplomatic row since Trump took workplace on January 20. The Republican president practically set off a commerce battle when he threatened to impose 25% tariffs if Mexico didn’t do extra to fight drug smuggling and immigration — which Mexico agreed to do by sending 10,000 Nationwide Guard troops to the U.S. border. And in his presidential marketing campaign, Trump has repeatedly prompt sending U.S. army into Mexico to fight drug cartels, remarks that Sheinbaum sees as a menace to Mexico’s sovereignty.
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