President Claudia Sheinbaum warned on Monday that Mexico will take legal action against Google if the company does not restore the name "Gulf of Mexico" on its Maps service for all users worldwide, arguing that President Donald Trump's order to call it "Gulf of America" is a violation of Mexican sovereignty and noting that the U.S. controls only 46% of the Gulf, while Mexico holds 49% and Cuba 5%.
"We will wait for Google's response and if not, we will proceed to court," Sheinbaum said during her morning press briefing, the Associated Press reported. She also shared a letter addressed to her government from Cris Turner, Google's vice president of government affairs and public policy, in which he said that "while international treaties and conventions are not intended to regulate how private mapping providers represent geographic features, it is our consistent policy to consult multiple authoritative sources."
