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Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google aft it changed the statement for the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America connected its maps level to lucifer U.S. President Donald Trump's enforcement bid to amend the sanction of the assemblage of water, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday.
Sheinbaum said astatine a property briefing that the suit had been filed against the tech giant, without providing further details.
The suit comes aft Sheinbaum threatened successful February to writer Google for the sanction change.
MEXICAN PRESIDENT SIGNALS POSSIBLE LAWSUIT AGAINST GOOGLE OVER GULF OF AMERICA NAME CHANGE
Mexico has filed a suit against Google aft it changed the statement for the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America connected its maps platform. (AP/Fernando Llano)
"We are going to wait. We are already seeing, observing what this would mean from the position of ineligible advice, but we anticipation that they volition marque a revision," Sheinbaum said astatine the time.
Mexico’s Foreign Relations Ministry has besides antecedently sent letters to Google urging it not to relabel the oceanic basin arsenic the Gulf of America.
Trump signed an order connected his archetypal time backmost successful the White House successful January to rename the bluish portion of the gulf to the Gulf of America. The assemblage of h2o has shared borders betwixt the United States and Mexico, and Trump’s bid lone carries authorization wrong the U.S.
Trump signed an bid connected his archetypal time backmost successful the White House successful January to rename the bluish portion of the gulf to the Gulf of America. (Daniel Torok/Chief White House Photographer)
Mexico has argued that the Gulf of America statement should lone use to the portion implicit the U.S. continental shelf. The U.S. has power implicit astir 46% of the gulf, Mexico controls astir 49% and Cuba controls astir 5%, according to Sovereign Limits, a database of planetary boundaries.
"What Google is doing present is changing the sanction of the continental support of Mexico and Cuba, which has thing to bash with Trump’s decree, which applied lone to the U.S. continental shelf," Sheinbaum said successful February.
The gulf appears successful Google Maps arsenic the Gulf of America wrong the U.S., arsenic the Gulf of Mexico wrong Mexico and Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) everyplace else. It had been called the Gulf of Mexico for much than 400 years.
Google Maps began utilizing Gulf of America for users successful the U.S. soon aft Trump's order. (AP/Google Maps)
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Google Maps began utilizing Gulf of America for users successful the U.S. soon aft Trump's order, citing its "longstanding practice" of pursuing the U.S. government’s pb connected these matters. In cases wherever authoritative names alteration betwixt countries, Google’s argumentation says users volition spot their authoritative section names.
In February, the Mexican president shared a effect from Google's vice president of authorities affairs and nationalist policy, Cris Turner, who said the institution would not alteration its argumentation aft Trump's order.
Sheinbaum’s announcement of the suit comes aft House Republicans passed the Gulf of America Act successful a 211-206 vote, marking the archetypal measurement successful codifying Trump's order. The authorities present heads to the Senate.
Fox News Digital has reached retired to Google for comment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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