Mexico has sued Google for adopting United States President Donald Trump’s labelling of the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America”.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the lawsuit on Friday, without providing further details. Mexico’s foreign relations ministry had previously sent letters to the tech giant asking them not to use “Gulf of America” to refer to waters within its territory.
Currently, the Gulf of Mexico appears as the “Gulf of America” on Google Maps for users within the US; it appears as “Gulf of Mexico” for users outside of the US.
On January 20, his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order changing the body of water’s name in all references by the federal government. A few weeks later, on February 09, he flew over the gulf and declared it to be “Gulf of America Day” in a separate proclamation.
The body of water in question, an oceanic basin cradled between the southern US and Mexico, has carried the name “Gulf of Mexico” for more than 400 years. Mexico has argued that, if the US is to adopt the term “Gulf of America”, the new name should only apply to the part of the gulf that sits over the US continental shelf. That boundary generally aligns with the US-Mexico maritime border.
Yesterday, Celtic came from behind to beat Hibernian 3-1 as the champions extended their lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership to a massive 20 points.
Third-place Hibs opened the scoring in the twenty-fifth minute but the Glaswegians turned the game around with two goals in four minutes just before the break from Nicolas Kuhn (41) and Adam Idah (45). In the second half, Reo Hatate stroked in a third in the fifty-eighth minute.
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