Mexico City: Mexico has sued Google for the Gulf of Mexico as a label for the Gulf of Mexico, Mexican President Donald Trump said Friday through an executive order.
Sheinbaum did not provide details of the lawsuit at a daily press conference, but said Google had been sued.
Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Relations had previously sent letters to Google asking it not to stick Mexican territory to the U.S. Gulf.
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The waters share a border between the United States and Mexico. Trump’s orders are only in the United States, Mexico, and other national and international institutions, and there is no need to admit the name changes.
Mexico believes that the U.S. Gulf can only be applied to the Gulf region of the U.S. continental shelf.
In February, Sheinbaum shared a letter from Cris Turner, Google’s vice president of government affairs and public policy, noting that Google will not change the policies Trump outlined after Trump declared the waters as the U.S. Gulf.
For now, the Gulf appears in Google Maps as the Gulf of Mexico within the United States, the Gulf of Mexico within Mexico and elsewhere (the Gulf of the United States). Turner said in his letter that the company is using the U.S. Gulf to follow “the map policy in all regions in an impartial and consistent manner.”
The Gulf of Mexico has been carrying a name for more than 400 years. By its original name, the Associated Press refers to the new name Trump chose. The White House moved in February to prevent the Associated Press from covering Trump in the Oval Office or Air Force One, with sporadic ability to cover him up at events in the East Room.
The Associated Press has sued three Trump administration officials for freedom of speech by asking federal judges to block its journalists with freedom of speech.
A federal judge ordered the White House to restore access to the Associated Press’s full coverage of the presidential incident and confirmed on the grounds of First Amendment that the administration cannot punish the content of the speeches of news agencies. The judge’s decision gave emergency relief as the lawsuit proceeded.
