Mexico sues Google over changing Gulf of Mexico’s name for US users

Mexico has sued Google for changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name to “Gulf of America” for Google Maps users successful the United States, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, said connected Friday.

“The suit has already been filed,” Sheinbaum said astatine her greeting quality conference, without saying wherever and erstwhile it was submitted.

On Thursday, Republicans successful the House of Representatives approved authorities to codify Donald Trump’s argumentation of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”.

The measurement was sponsored by rightwing Georgia lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene and passed astir on enactment lines, with each Democrats opposed and astir each Republican, with the objection of susceptible Nebraska typical Don Bacon, voting successful favor.

The measure would marque the sanction alteration authoritative for national agencies, but it’s improbable to pull the Democratic enactment needed to walk the Senate. Even if it did, different countries person nary work to usage the caller name.

Sheinbaum had warned Google, which is portion of tech elephantine Alphabet, successful February that she was considering ineligible action unless the institution reversed its decision.

Her authorities argues that Trump’s enforcement bid connected the taxable lone applies to the portion of the continental support belonging to the United States.

“All we privation is for the decree issued by the US authorities to beryllium complied with,” Sheinbaum said.

“The US authorities lone calls the information of the US continental support the Gulf of America, not the full gulf, due to the fact that it wouldn’t person the authorization to sanction the full gulf,” she added.

In effect to Trump, Sheinbaum has cheekily suggested calling the United States “América Mexicana” – Mexican America, pointing to a representation dating backmost to earlier 1848, erstwhile one-third of her state was seized by the United States.

The neighboring countries are successful talks to defuse tensions implicit Trump’s planetary commercialized war, which has included a series of tariff announcements targeting Mexico.

With reporting by Agence France-Press