Mexico suing Google over relabelling Gulf of Mexico
Mexico suing Google over relabelling Gulf of Mexico - Hypertext
- Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google for relabelling the Gulf of Mexico in its Maps app.
- The big tech firm did so after receiving instructions to do so by the Trump administration.
- The region’s name is displayed as Gulf of Mexico with Gulf of America in brackets for Maps users outside the US.
Interesting; I had assumed the executive order was intended to make the name apply to the entire gulf, but the Mexican President's phrasing of "stick to what the United States government approved" seems to contradict that, so I looked it up, and indeed it does acknowledge international boundaries within the gulf (emphasis mine):
...the Secretary of the Interior shall... rename as the “Gulf of America” the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico.
