Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that she and her staff are considering suing Google for refusing to change the Gulf of America to the Gulf of Mexico.
During a morning press conference, Shainbaum argued that her legal team is considering legal options after the Mexican government sent a letter requesting Google to change its name to the Gulf of Mexico. did.
The issue began on January 20th, when US President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14,172. The next day, Google, Apple, and various other companies began to rename water on the map.
On January 30th, Sinbaum's Foreign Secretary Juan Ramon de la Fuente sent a letter to Google asking him to act under her orders and restore his name. They argued that Trump's orders apply only to US water and not international water. In the letter they argued that the name Gulf of Mexico is internationally recognized.
“They answered the letter,” Shenbaum said. “The Foreign Minister replied with a letter saying no, saying that the entire Gulf of Mexico could not be called the US Gulf. The decree was given again, and the international standards were repeated. Therefore, they would If we continue to argue, we are considering litigation because they are naming it through our continental shelf, the territory of Mexico.”
Sheinbaum argued that Google is commonly used as a reference all over the world, despite being a private company rather than an international measure.
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