President Claudia Sheinbaum says lawsuit has been filed after US lawmakers voted on name change
Mexico has sued Google for changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name to “Gulf of America” for Google Maps users in the United States, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, said on Friday.
“The lawsuit has already been filed,” Sheinbaum said at her morning news conference, without saying where and when it was submitted.
On Thursday, Republicans in the House of Representatives approved legislation to codify Donald Trump’s policy of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”.
As someone who lives near it, I’ve never heard a single person — even Trump supporters — call it anything but “The Gulf” or “Gulf of Mexico.” Google should let locals decide the name and not some effete New York dandy who has probably never even gone fishing, much less participated in the Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo.
Why is it called “gulf of California”? California doesnt even surround it. Time for uno reverse
The only option is a US state name change back to Alta California and a re-formalization of Baja California’s bay as the Sea of Cortés.
Let’s not, the idiots running the show in the US will just rename it to the Gulf of Patriotism or some dumb bullshit.
How about the Gulf Of Alaska? Why isn’t it the Gulf Of Canada?
I hate the move to rename it as well but… Good luck with that. I can’t see why any court would even entertain such a suit.
It’s a petty thing that eats the available bandwidth of Trump’s lawyers. I’m all for it. Overload them with court cases.
“All we want is for the decree issued by the US government to be complied with,” Sheinbaum said.
“The US government only calls the portion of the US continental shelf the Gulf of America, not the entire gulf, because it wouldn’t have the authority to name the entire gulf,” she added.
this suit pertains to google’s renaming of the entire body of water instead of just the bits over the u.s. continental shelf; or essentially the u.s. eez–which is no more than 200nm from land, less where it runs into another nation’s eez.
that region extends roughly due east from the southern tip of texas to 200nm from flordia’s gulf coast, then south until it runs into cuba’s eez where it’s then split between the two countries.
But what law has been broken? Google can label it “The Gulf of Space-X Debris” and violate no law.
…the u.s. eez–which is no more than 200nm from land…
200 nanometres is 0.002 centimetres. That converts to 0.00078 inches (a bit over 3/4096", if you prefer fractional representation). Surely that can’t be correct.
Pretty sure they’re using nm to represent nautical miles…
I want someone to get in a bar fight in Texas over the name of the Gulf of Mexico
Someone had to do it!
I appreciate the fact that she’s filing another law suit to eat up maga lawyers time with their own bullshit.
We live in the stupidest timeline. What’s next?
Trumpifornia? Yomerica National Park? New Trumpsico? The American Ocean?
Good god don’t give him ideas
It all started with everyone applauding the “Freedom Fries”. Operation Full Stupid was initiated.
we took deep personal offense to France seeing us for who we really are
Trumpifornication?
That’s the right thing to do! International laws exist, and therefore to be used for anyone who needs it.
Obviously Trump’s rename of Gulf of Mexico was stupid, but this is ridiculous, how does Mexico imagine they have a right to decide what others call things?
This is stupid meets stupid.Respectfully, I disagree. They have maps border and place names tailored for each country they deserves.
There is a single country in the world that recognises the name « Gulf of America ». Yet they show that name in all countries, wether that name is recognised or not.
As a European, I don’t care how Trump names that body of water and it pisses me off each time I see that name, in French to make it even more ridiculous.
Yet they show that name in all countries,
No, from the article this is the issue:
for Google Maps users in the United States
As a European they show both as Mexican and American in my language.
The latter is of course moronic, because as you say it is not an acknowledged name in my country, but how would you suggest it is illegal in USA?I disagree with the same person, but without respecting them.
