Mexican president signals possible lawsuit against Google over Gulf of America name change

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday her authorities was deciding whether to initiate a suit against Google for renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America connected Google Maps. 

"We are going to wait. We are already seeing, observing what this would mean from the position of ineligible advice, but we anticipation that they volition marque a revision," Sheinbaum said, according to Reuters. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Google. 

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President Claudia Sheinbaum and President Donald Trump  (Getty Images)

Google renamed the assemblage of h2o aft President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid to alteration it. Now, Google Maps users successful the United States volition spot "Gulf of America" successful the app, and users extracurricular the U.S. and Mexico spot some terms, the institution said.

"We're going to beryllium changing the sanction of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beauteous ring. That covers a batch of territory," Trump said Tuesday. "The Gulf of America. What a beauteous name. And it's appropriate."

Sheinbaum has decried the move, saying the Gulf of Mexico sanction has agelong been recognized internationally.

"All we are asking of Google is to look astatine the decree that the White House released and that President Donald Trump signed. You’ll spot successful that decree that it does not notation to the full gulf," Sheinbaum said.

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Google Maps has begun referring to the Gulf of Mexico arsenic the Gulf of America. (AP/Google Maps)

"If necessary, we volition record a civilian suit," she added. "Our ineligible country is already looking into what that would mean, but we anticipation that (Google) reconsiders."

Aside from Google, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sent retired a charting announcement confirming that its systems were successful the process of updating the name, successful summation to updating the recently named Mount McKinley successful Alaska, formerly known arsenic Denali.

President Donald Trump, right, speaks to reporters accompanied by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Burgum's wife, Kathryn Burgum, aboard Air Force One, wherever Trump signed a proclamation declaring Feb. 9 Gulf of America Day arsenic helium travels from West Palm Beach, Fla., to New Orleans Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025.  (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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"Please beryllium advised that the FAA is successful the process of updating our information and charts to amusement a sanction alteration from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and a sanction alteration from Denali to Mount McKinley. This volition beryllium targeted for the adjacent work cycle," the announcement said.