Mexico’s president calls on Google to identify US as ‘América Mexicana’

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Mexico’s president calls on

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to identify US as ‘América Mexicana’

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has blasted

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for kowtowing to Donald Trump by changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico – and wants the United States to be identified as “América Mexicana.”

Sheinbaum attacked

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after Trump unilaterally decreed last week in an executive order hat the Gulf of Mexico will henceforth be known as the “Gulf of America” – and

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quickly agreed to comply on its

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maps.

All it takes for such a name change is for U.S. documents to make the switch,

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explained in a statement Monday on X.

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claimed the move was in line with its “longstanding practice of applying name changes” when they have simply been “updated in official government sources.”

The company also said it will “quickly” change the name of the

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in Alaska to honor the state’s native population to Mt. McKinley, as Trump has demanded in a move that has triggered furious criticism, once official documents are updated.

Trump declared both changes in an executive order to “honor America’s greatness.”

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on their

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maps, Mexico will see the “Gulf of Mexico,” and the rest of the world will see both, according to

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Sheinbaum objected to Trump and

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’s name grab in a letter addressed to the company that she showed reporters Thursday. But if

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is so cavalierly changing names on its maps, she wants the United States identified as América Mexicana, she said Wednesday.

Sheinbaum recognizes that she has no authority to do so, just as Trump has no power to switch the name of the Gulf of Mexico, she noted.

The U.S. cannot unilaterally change the name of a body of water which it shares with Cuba and Mexico because the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea dictates that an individual country’s sovereign territory only extends up to 12 nautical miles out from the coastline, she noted.

“If a country wants to change the designation of something in the sea, it would only apply up to 12 nautical miles,” Sheinbuam explained to reporters. “t cannot apply to the rest, in this case, the Gulf of Mexico. This is what we explained in detail to

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But in a **** for tat, Sheinbaum is calling on

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to prominently display the map of América Mexicana as including regions of the United States.

“We ask that when you put América Mexicana in the search engine, the map appears that we presented,” she told

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Trump has not commented on Sheinbaum’s demand.

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has not responded to questions from The Independent whether it will include sections of the U.S. on América Mexicana on

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Maps – once the switch is recorded in official ******** documents, which is apparently the sole

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requirement for such a change.

The name América Mexicana was first seen on maps in 1607. It covers various areas in what is currently known as the United States.

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