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The Mexican authorities has filed a suit against Google for renaming the Gulf of Mexico arsenic the Gulf of America successful Maps wrong the United States. Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said during a property league that the suit has already been filed, but arsenic The Guardian notes, she didn't accidental erstwhile and wherever it was submitted. Sheinbaum argued that the Trump administration's bid for a sanction alteration lone applies to the US information of the oceanic basin and that the US authorities doesn't person the authorization to rename the full assemblage of water. "All we privation is for the decree issued by the US authorities to beryllium complied with," she said.
Google renamed the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America for users who unfastened Maps successful the US backmost successful February. It first announced that it was going to bash truthful the erstwhile period and said it was lone waiting for the US authorities to marque the alteration authoritative successful the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which serves arsenic the "federal and nationalist modular for geographic nomenclature." BBC said the Mexican authorities wrote to Google astatine the clip to get it to reconsider earlier yet threatening ineligible action.
When Google announced the sanction alteration for US users, it explained that it was pursuing a longstanding signifier to amusement authoritative section names for places successful Maps erstwhile they alteration betwixt countries. In Mexico, the basin is inactive called the Gulf of Mexico, portion it shows up arsenic "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" for users extracurricular some countries.
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