Ambassador Huckabee Blasts Weak European Leaders Backing Hamas
What CNN's Harry Enten Just Said About Trump Is Going to Drive Libs...
Disgraced Ex-Secret Service Chief Was Set to Get Her Security Clearance Renewed...and Then...
Bill Maher Nails Who Zohran Mamdani Is...and He Knows It'll Help Republicans
What a Fired ABC News Reporter Just Said About Anti-Trump Media Bias Is...
Some Adult Entertainment Got Hurled Onto the Court During a WNBA Game...Literally
Support Democrats’ Right to Speak Freely and Make Damn Fools of Themselves
Comedy Always Evolves, and Colbert Almost Killed It
The VP Harris Post-Mortem on Stephen Colbert (Yes, Kamala, the System Worked)
Trump’s Tariff Triumph
The Biggest Loserit
It’s Time for Independence for Biafra Free From Nigerian Control
Democrats Are in Disastrous Shape As Midterms Loom
Has Pressure on Advertisers to Leave X Hurt the Right’s Only Major Free...
Understanding Transgender Surgery
Tipsheet

Mexico's President Is Not Taking Trump's Executive Order on the 'Gulf of America' Too Well

Townhall Media

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum is asking Google to reconsider the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, per the executive order President Trump signed his first week in office. 

Advertisement

In a letter to the company, Sheinbaum said "[The name change] could only correspond to the 12 nautical miles away from the coastlines of the United States of America” because that’s as far as a nation’s sovereign territory extends from the coastline, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.    

President Sheinbaum showed the letter to reporters Thursday saying, “In the case of Mexico, where are we completely sovereign? In the area established as 12 nautical miles from the coastline, and this applies to all countries worldwide.”

“If a country wants to change the designation of something in the sea, it would only apply up to 12 nautical miles. It cannot apply to the rest, in this case, the Gulf of Mexico. This is what we explained in detail to Google.”

Referring to a previous counterproposal she made to Trump to rename the US, Sheinbaum added, “In the end, we requested that when someone searches for ‘América Mexicana’ in the search engine, the map we previously presented should appear.” That map, from 1607, labeled parts of North America “Mexican America” and was shown during a press conference earlier this month. (CNN)

Advertisement

Google announced Monday it would honor the name change once the Geographic Names Information System makes the update.

"We’ve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps. We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources," the News From Google account wrote on X. "For geographic features in the U.S., this is when Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated. When that happens, we will update Google Maps in the U.S. quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America."

Google noted, however, that it is "longstanding practice" at the company that when there is a dispute between countries over names, "users see their official local name" on maps though "everyone in the rest of the world sees both names." 

"That applies here too," Google noted.



 

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement