Mexico threatens to sue Google over name change of Gulf of Mexico on US maps [View all]

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Mexico threatens to sue Google over name change of Gulf of Mexico on US maps
By Michael Rios, Billy Stockwell and Karol Suarez, CNN
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Updated 1:23 PM EST, Mon February 17, 2025

CNN —

Mexico will take Google to court if maps shown to US-based users continue to label the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America across the entire body of water, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday, arguing that US President Donald Trump’s order to rename it only applies to the part of the continental shelf under US control.

“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 US continental shelf,” Sheinbaum told reporters. “We do not agree with this, and the Foreign Minister has sent a new letter addressing the issue.”

Sheinbaum said the renaming is “incorrect,” adding that Trump’s decree “only changed the name within his own continental shelf, which extends 22 nautical miles from the US coast—not the entire Gulf.”

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