Mexico sues Google because of changing the name of “Bay of America”

Mexico is suing Google for ignoring multiple requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps for US users, says President Claudia Shainbaum.

She did not say where the case was brought. Google did not reply to the BBC request for comment.

On Thursday, the Republican Chamber of Representatives voted officially renaming the bay for federal agencies.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on his first day of service in January.

He claims that the change is justified because the US is “doing the bigger part of the work there and that is ours.”

The Shainbaum government, however, claims that Trump’s order is applied only to the US part of the continental shelf.

“All we want is the decree issued by the US government to be implemented,” she said, claiming that the US has no authority to rename the entire bay.

In January, Sheinbaum wrote a letter to Google asking the company to review its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico to US users. The next month, she threatens court action.

At the time, Google stated that this made the change as part of the “long -standing practice” of the following changes in the name when updated by official government sources.

It says that the bay – which is bordered by the United States, Cuba and Mexico – will not be changed for people who use the app in Mexico, and users elsewhere will see the label: “The Mexican Bay (Bay of America).”

The refusal of the Associated Press (AP) news agency to begin to refer to the Bay of the US Gulf has led to a one -month conflict with the White House, which limited AP access to certain events.

A federal judge ordered the White House in April to stop removing the exit.

Trump hinted on Wednesday that he may recommend changing the way the United States refers to another water body.

During the upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia, he plans to announce that the United States will refer to the Gulf of Persian as the Gulf or the Gulf of Arab, the AP reported.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakchi replied, saying that he hoped that “absurd rumors” were “no more than a misinformation campaign” and a similar move would “bring the wrath to all Iranians.”