Mexico Sues Google For Renaming Gulf Of Mexico As ‘gulf Of America’ - Beritaja
Fed up pinch Google’s insistence connected labelling the Gulf of Mexico arsenic the Gulf of America connected Google Maps, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her state has made bully connected threats to writer the tech giant.
“The lawsuit has already been filed,” Sheinbaum said astatine her greeting news convention connected Friday, without saying wherever and erstwhile it was submitted, reports The Guardian.
The alteration successful the sanction of the assemblage of h2o was an enactment made by U.S. President Donald Trump by executive order earlier this year.
At a February property conference, soon aft the executive bid was signed and Google changed the sanction connected its maps, Sheinbaum based on that Trump’s bid to rename the gulf only applies to portion of the continental support nether U.S. control.
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“What Google is doing present is changing the sanction of the continental support of Mexico and Cuba, which has nothing to do pinch Trump’s decree, which applied only to the U.S. continental shelf,” Sheinbaum said astatine the time, adding Mexico had written a missive to Google and was awaiting a consequence connected the matter.
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“We will hold for Google’s consequence and if not, we will proceed to court,” she warned, sharing a erstwhile missive from Cris Turner, Google’s vice president of authorities affairs and nationalist policy, stating that Google will not alteration the argumentation it outlined aft Trump declared the assemblage of h2o the Gulf of America.
As it stands, the gulf appears successful Google Maps arsenic Gulf of America wrong the United States, arsenic Gulf of Mexico wrong Mexico and Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) elsewhere, including Canada. Turner successful his missive said the institution was utilizing Gulf of America to travel “longstanding maps policies impartially and consistently crossed each regions.”
The assemblage of h2o has shared borders betwixt the United States and Mexico. Trump’s bid only carries authority wrong the U.S.
Mexico, arsenic good arsenic different countries and world bodies, do not person to admit the sanction change.
Sheinbaum has many times decried the move, arguing the “Gulf of Mexico” sanction has agelong been recognized internationally. On Feb. 13, she said Google had not resolved Mexico’s earlier complaints.
“If necessary, we will record a civilian suit,” she said. “Even President Trump isn’t proposing that the full Gulf of Mexico beryllium called the ‘Gulf of America,’ but only their continental shelf. So Google is wrong.”
— With files from Beritaja’ Katie Scott and The Associated Press
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