Many people think about Google as being untouchable but it seems as if the president of Mexico does not have the same feelings. In fact, she has threatened legal action against the technological giant for renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
United States Pres. Donald Trump did not waste any time in starting to sign some executive orders once he took office. One of those, and one that caused a lot of feedback is his executive order to rename the Gulf Of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
Shortly after the executive order was signed, Google made the name change. You could open the Google Maps application and if you are in the right part of the world, you would see that it had been renamed as the Gulf of America.
The name change may seem like a small thing to some, but that is not the case with Mexican Pres. Claudia Sheinbaum. At a news conference, she even joked that the US should be renamed as well, doing so as she stood in front of a map of North and South America from 1607. See suggested: “The United Nations recognizes the name Gulf of Mexico, but next, why don’t we call it Mexican America? It sounds nice doesn’t it?
“Since 1607, the constitution of Apatzingan was Mexican America. So, let’s call it Mexican America?”
Sheinbaum also sent a letter to Google about her frustration over the agreement to change the name of the golf. She said: “If a country wants to change the designation of something in the sea, it would only apply up to 12 nautical miles. It cannot apply to the rest, in this case, the Gulf of Mexico. This is what we explained in detail to Google.”
She then asked Google: “We ask that when you put Mexican America in the search engine, the map appears that we presented.”
At first, she seemed to be joking but now, she is getting a little more serious. She said that if Google was not going to change the name of The Gulf of America label on their maps program, to only cover the portion of water about 22 nautical miles that is under US jurisdiction, then she will ‘proceed to court.’
The Mexican administration sent a letter to Google that said: “Any reference to the ‘Gulf of America’ initiative on your Google Maps platform must be exclusively limited to the marine area under US jurisdiction.
“Any extension beyond that zone exceeds the authority of any national government or private entity. Should that be the case, the Government of Mexico will take the appropriate legal actions as deemed necessary.”
