Mexico is suing Google over the way it’s labeling the Gulf of Mexico

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum introduced Friday that her authorities is suing Google for relabeling the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” for US customers, CBS Information stories. The corporate had executed so in Google Maps after President Trump ordered the title change at first of his Presidential time period.

The lawsuit makes good on Sheinbaum’s February risk that Mexico would “proceed to court docket” if the corporate didn’t change the title, which it saved as Gulf of Mexico for customers in Mexico, however switched to “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in areas exterior of the 2 international locations. In line with a machine-translated transcript of Sheinbaum’s Friday press briefing, she says “the one factor we would like is compliance with the decree issued by the US authorities,” which, she provides, “wouldn’t have the authority to call all the Gulf, as a result of that’s a world attribution.”

President Sheinbaum continues:

We couldn’t say something about altering the title of a state, a mountain, or a lake. So, the a part of their territory that corresponds to them will be referred to as no matter they resolve. The half that corresponds to Mexico can’t be renamed. The half that corresponds to Cuba can’t be renamed, both. So, what we’re saying is, “Google, keep on with what the US authorities authorized.”

Previous to her briefing, Mexico despatched letters to Google asking it to not label its territorial waters as Gulf of America, and Sheinbaum shared a reply from Google VP of presidency affairs and public coverage Cris Turner stating the corporate had no plans to vary its coverage. CBS Information notes that the US Home handed a invoice on Thursday that will codify the title change.

Google didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s request for remark.