Mexico sues Google for changing 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America' after Trump's order

Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google after it changed the label for the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps platform to match U S President Donald Trump's executive order to amend the name of the body of water Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum declared Friday Sheinbaum explained at a press briefing that the lawsuit had been filed against the tech giant without providing additional details The lawsuit comes after Sheinbaum threatened in February to sue Google for the name change MEXICAN PRESIDENT SIGNALS DOABLE LAWSUIT AGAINST GOOGLE OVER GULF OF AMERICA NAME CHANGE We are going to wait We are already seeing observing what this would mean from the perspective of legal advice but we hope that they will make a revision Sheinbaum announced at the time Mexico s Foreign Relations Ministry has also previously sent letters to Google urging it not to relabel the oceanic basin as the Gulf of America Trump signed an order on his first day back in the White House in January to rename the northern part of the gulf to the Gulf of America The body of water has shared borders between the United States and Mexico and Trump s order only carries authority within the U S Mexico has argued that the Gulf of America label should only apply to the part over the U S continental shelf The U S has control over about of the gulf Mexico controls about and Cuba controls about according to Sovereign Limits a database of international boundaries What Google is doing here is changing the name of the continental shelf of Mexico and Cuba which has nothing to do with Trump s decree which applied only to the U S continental shelf Sheinbaum mentioned in February The gulf appears in Google Maps as the Gulf of America within the U S as the Gulf of Mexico within Mexico and Gulf of Mexico Gulf of America everywhere else It had been called the Gulf of Mexico for more than years GOOGLE MAPS FAA OFFICIALY ACKNOWLEDGE GULF OF AMERICA AFTER TRUMP DECLARATION ISN T IT BEAUTIFUL 'Google Maps began using Gulf of America for users in the U S shortly after Trump's order citing its longstanding practice of following the U S administration s lead on these matters In cases where official names vary between countries Google s approach says users will see their official local names In February the Mexican president shared a response from Google's vice president of regime affairs and citizens approach Cris Turner who reported the company would not change its protocol after Trump's order Sheinbaum s announcement of the lawsuit comes after House Republicans passed the Gulf of America Act in a - vote marking the first step in codifying Trump's order The ordinance now heads to the Senate Fox News Digital has reached out to Google for comment The Associated Press contributed to this document