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Mexico presses case against Google over Gulf of America name change

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18.02.2025

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum accused Google on Monday of violating the country's sovereignty, leaving open the possibility of a lawsuit over the tech company labeling the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" in its maps feature.

Sheinbaum argued President Trump's executive order renaming the gulf applied only to the area of the continental shelf under U.S. control, according to a translation by CNN.

“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 said Monday, according to the CNN........

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