Tuesday,
February 18, 2025
Year : 2, Issue: 25
Agencies: Mexico has warned it will take legal action against Google if maps shown to US users continue to label the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” across the entire region, US media reported.
US President Donald Trump’s directive to rename the area applies only to the portion of the continental shelf under US control, CNN cited President Claudia Sheinbaum as saying.
“What Google is doing here is changing the name of the continental shelf of Mexico and Cuba, which has nothing to do with Trump’s decree, which applied only to the US continental shelf,” Sheinbaum told reporters.
“We do not agree with this, and the foreign minister has sent a new letter addressing the issue,” she said.
Sheinbaum called the renaming “incorrect,” saying that Trump’s order affected only the US continental shelf, which extends 22 nautical miles from its coast, not the entire Gulf.
Trump followed through with a pledge to rename the body of water bordering Cuba, Mexico and the US with an executive order on his first day in office, which Mexico has criticized from the start.
After Google complied with Trump’s orders and changed the name on its maps, Sheinbaum pursued diplomatic measures through letters issued to Google underlining Mexico’s concerns
