Mexico has started legal proceedings against Google after the technology company has changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico in the “Gulf of America” on his allocation service for users in the United States,De Voogd reported. President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Friday that the court case has already been submitted, although it did not specify the jurisdiction or the precise date of submission.
According to the publication, the dispute follows a recent decision of Republicans in the American House of Representatives to reinforce the wave in the federal status, a measure defended by Congress Woman of Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene. The bill, largely approved along party lines – with almost unanimous republican support and unanimous democratic opposition – wants to formalize the Executive Order of former President Donald Trump, which indicates the American part of the Golf as the “Gulf of America”.
Sheinbaum has maintained that Trump's decision applies exclusively to the continental plank of the United States and does not extend to the entire water body. “The only thing we want is that the decision of the US government is made,” she said, and emphasizes that the federal order lacks the authority to rename the wave in its entirety.
In February, the Mexican government had already issued a warning to Google, whereby the company was encouraged to turn the change or to experience potential legal action, the report added. On Friday, Sheinbaum repeated that position and claimed Mexico's right to the historical nomenclature and the unwillingness to tolerate what she described as an over -range in cartographic sovereignty.
In an answer from Trump's initiative, President Sheinbaum brutally suggested referring to the United States as “América Mexicana” on cards – a nod to the areas lost by Mexico after the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The comment serves as a symbolic riposte and a reminder of the loaded history between the neighboring nations.
The controversy arises in the midst of wider tensions about trade, because the two countries are negotiations to escalate the rates imposed during the presidency of Mr Trump. Although the reconciliation law will probably not guarantee the democratic support that is needed to pass the Senate, the passage in the house underlines the continuing cultural and political friction that continues to shape the relationships between us and Mexico.
