Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum says she sent a letter to Google asking the company not to comply with President Donald Trump’s order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps app.
Sheinbaum showed the letter to reporters during a news conference Thursday. She said that her letter to Google argues that the United States cannot unilaterally rename the body of water since it shares it with Cuba and Mexico. The Mexican government says the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea dictates that an individual country’s sovereign territory only extends up to 12 nautical miles out from the coastline, she said.
“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,” Sheinbaum told reporters Thursday.
Sheinbaum also referenced a joke she previously made saying that if countries were going to start renaming things, perhaps the United States should be called “Mexican America,” citing a map of the continent from 1607. Sheinbaum said her letter to Google asked the search engine to prominently display the map of Mexican America.
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