Mexico City – Mexico said Monday that a new Google response is waiting for its request that the Technology Company restored the name of the Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before submitting a demand.
President Claudia Sheinbaum shared a letter addressed to her Government of Cris Turner, Vice President of Government and Public Policies of Google. He says that Google will not change the policy described after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, the Gulf of America Gulf declared.
“We will wait for Google’s response and, if not, we will proceed to the Court,” Sheinbaum said Monday during a morning press conference.
As is, the Gulf appears on Google Maps such as the Gulf of America within the United States, as a Gulf of Mexico within Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) in other places. Turner in his card
“While international treaties and conventions do not intend to regulate how private mapping suppliers represent geographical characteristics, it is our consistent policy to consult multiple authorized sources to provide the most up -to -date and precise representation of the world,” he wrote.
Mexico has argued that Mapeo’s policy violates Mexican sovereignty because the United States only has jurisdiction over about 46% of the Gulf. The rest is controlled by Mexico, which controls 49% and Cuba, which controls around 5%. The name of the Gulf of Mexico dates back to 1607 and is recognized by the United Nations.
In response to the Google letter, the Mexican authorities said they would take legal measures, writing that “under no circumstances will accept the change of name of a geographical area within its own territory and under its jurisdiction.”
The change of name of the body of water by Trump has accumulated tensions between Mexico and the United States at a crucial moment for neighboring allies.
Sheinbaum has had to walk a very fine line with Trump amid threats of tariffs and Mexico and other Latin American countries have prepared for mass deportations, whose worst part has not yet felt.
Together with the legal threat to Google, the Mexican president also announced on Monday that Mexico and the United States would hold high -level meetings this week about trade and security in an effort to maintain a “long -term collaboration plan” among the two countries.
It is the last round of conversations between the two countries where Mexico hopes to stop a larger geopolitical crisis.
The change of name of the body of water has also fed the fight within the US.
Last week, the White House BARRED ASSOCIATED Press Reporters of several events, Including some in the Oval office, saying that it was due to the policy of the news agency on the name. The AP is using the Gulf of Mexico to ensure that the names of geographical characteristics are recognizable worldwide, but also recognize Trump’s name change too.
Other journalistic organizations, such as the Organization of correspondents of the White House and the New York Times, have echoed the AP to alarm about the violations of press freedom.
