Posted on 05/09/2025 9:06:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Mexico is suing Google for ignoring repeated requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps for US users, President Claudia Sheinbaum says.
She did not say where the lawsuit had been filed. Google did not respond to the BBC's request for comment.
Sheinbaum's government contends that...the US lacks the authority to rename the entire gulf.
In January, Sheinbaum wrote a letter to Google asking the firm to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico for US users. The following month, she threatened legal action.
At the time, Google said it made the change as part of "a longstanding practice" of following name changes when updated by official government sources.
It said the Gulf - which is bordered by the US, Cuba and Mexico - would not be changed for people using the app in Mexico, and users elsewhere in the world will see the label: "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)".
Trump hinted Wednesday that he may recommend changing the way the US refers to another body of water.
During an upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia, he plans to announce that the US will henceforth refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia, AP reported.
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Your post is pretty childish.
You say all that as though Mexico has ever been cooperative. They have invaded our country and you want to treat them gently. I do not!
My post offered a detailed argument.
Your response offers nothing.
You’re right about the childish attitude, yours.
We should have invaded Mexico long ago and corrected their corruption problem.
BS
Many places have different names depending on where you are.
Is it the Rio Bravo or Rio Grande?
Is it the Persian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia?
Is it the North China Sea or the Sea of Japan?
IMHO I would have changed it till The Gulf of the Americas... changed Columbus day to Amerigo Vespucci Day, and removed the Laticia James statue with a sizable Amerigo Vespucci statue in NYC.
“Some Freepers will respond, “We don’t need Mexico’s cooperation — We can FORCE them to do our bidding!”
Cooporation is why the Monroe Doctrine exists... that and the easily swayed indigenous populations and colonials that inhabited the Americas when the doctrine was promulgated.
The Aztecs, who sacrificed humans, called themselves the Mexika.
Sue them for WHAT exactly?
When I got through with you, you would make a video in tears apologizing for what you just stated and telling others not to do the same. I will go to my grave maintaining that position. I am sick and tired of the world expecting us to kneel to them. I am married to the culture, so I do understand their mindset. Set a severe example and the rest shut up.
Mexico used to control most of the land touching the Gulf of America. We took it away from them and we control most of the land touching the Gulf of America. Take it back, or be quiet.
We didn’t take anything on the Gulf from Mexico.
Spain should be the ones suing - they named it....🥸🤪👊
hypocrite, the left has been removing statues and removing products for years now for all kinds of reasons. You didn’t have a problem with it then. Now you are crying like a little child. Your President Trump is giving them and you the same. It is what we elected him to do. It is past time to take the language back.
Avoid this nonsense. Everything north of the Tropic of Cancer is Gulf of America. Everything south, call it whatever TF you want to call it.
How about calling it “Land of the Losers”?
There’s practical reasons to name change and allow drilling and exploration in the Gulf of America..
So, any restrictions on any exploration or drilling or energy production in the ‘Gulf of Mexico ‘ by the Swamp is now dead..
Obliteration of the Deep State and draining the Swamp won’t be for everybody.
And btw, Mexico isn’t the problem President Trump is facing with deportations,
It’s that same Swamp and Deep State you’ve been voting for making things difficult..
Adios.
LOL
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