Mexico Sues Google For Renaming Gulf Of Mexico | EUROtoday

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has sued tech big Google over its labelling of the Gulf of Mexico because the Gulf of America, a change made by U.S. President Donald Trump through government order, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned Friday.

Sheinbaum didn’t present particulars of the lawsuit throughout her every day press briefing, however mentioned that Google had been sued.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations ministry had beforehand despatched letters to Google asking it to not label Mexican territorial waters because the Gulf of America.

Google didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

The physique of water has shared borders between the United States and Mexico. Trump’s order solely carries authority throughout the U.S. Mexico, in addition to different international locations and worldwide our bodies, do not need to acknowledge the identify change.

Mexico argues that Gulf of America ought to solely apply to the a part of the gulf over the United States continental shelf.

In February, Sheinbaum shared a letter from Cris Turner, Google’s vice chairman of presidency affairs and public coverage, stating that Google won’t change the coverage it outlined after Trump declared the physique of water the Gulf of America.

As it stands, the gulf seems in Google Maps as Gulf of America throughout the United States, as Gulf of Mexico inside Mexico and Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) elsewhere. Turner in his letter mentioned the corporate was utilizing Gulf of America to observe “longstanding maps policies impartially and consistently across all regions.”

The Gulf of Mexico has carried that identify for greater than 400 years. The Associated Press refers to it by its authentic identify whereas acknowledging the brand new identify Trump has chosen. The White House moved in February to dam the AP from being among the many small group of journalists to cowl Trump within the Oval Office or aboard Air Force One, with sporadic capability to cowl him at occasions within the East Room.

The AP sued three Trump administration officers over entry to presidential occasions, citing freedom of speech in asking a federal choose to cease the blocking of its journalists.

A federal choose ordered the White House final month to revive the AP’s full entry to cowl presidential occasions, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the federal government can’t punish the information group for the content material of its speech. The choose’s resolution granted emergency reduction whereas the lawsuit proceeds.

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