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Mexico endured a a lawsuit against Google After changing the label of the Mexican Gulf of Mexico to America Bay on his MAPS platform to reconcile US President Donald Trump’s executive order to change the name of the body of water, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Friday.
Sheinbaum said at the briefing that the lawsuit had been filed against a technological giant, without giving additional details.
The lawsuit comes after sheinbaum tHreated in February To sue Google to change the name.
Mexican president signals a possible lawsuit against Google for changing the name of the Gulf of Bay
Mexico filed a lawsuit against Google after changing the Gulf of Mexican Bay on the US Gulf on its Maps platform. (AP/Fernando Llano)
“We’ll wait. We already see, watching what this would mean from the perspective of legal advice, but we hope they will make an audit,” Sheinbaum said at the time.
The Mexican Foreign Ministry of External Relations also previously sent letters to Google, persuading him not to relax the ocean pool as a US bay.
Trump has signed the command On the first day at the White House in January to rename the northern part of the bay to the US Bay. The water body divided the boundaries between the United States and Mexico, and Trump’s command only carries the authority in the USA
On the first day, Trump signed a command in January in the White House in January to rename the northern part of the Bay to the US Bay. (Daniel Tok/Chief Photographer of White House)
Mexico claimed that the Bay of America sticker should be applied only to the part on the US continental shelf. The United States has control over about 46%of the bays, Mexico controls about 49%, and Cuba controls about 5%, according to Sovereign Limits, the database of international borders.
“What Google does here is changing the name of the continental shelf of Mexico and Cuba, which has nothing to do with Trump’s decree, which has only applied to the US continental shelf,” Sheinbaum said in February.
The bay appears in Google Maps as a Gulf of America in the United States, as a Mexican Bay in Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico (US Bay) everywhere else. He was called the Gulf of Mexican for over 400 years.
Google Maps started using the US Bay for users in the United States shortly after Trump’s command. (AP/Google Maps)
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Google Maps started using the US Bay for users in the United States shortly after Trump’s command, citing his “longtime practice” by following the leadership of the US government about these things. In cases where official names differ between countries, Google’s politics says users will see their official local names.
In February, Mexican president He shared the answer of Google’s Vice President for State Affairs and Public Policy, Cris Turner, who said that the company would not change its policy after Trump’s command.
Sheinbaum’s announcement of the lawsuit comes after the Republicans of House passed the Law on the Bay of America in the vote 211-206, which marked the first step in codifying Trump’s order. Legislation is now referred to the Senate.
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Associated Press contributed to this report.
