Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says that Mexico will undertake legal actions against Google if the map shown to users in the United States continues to label the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America throughout the body of water.
During a press conference on Monday, Sheinbaum argued that the order of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to change the name of the body of water only applies to part of the continental platform under the control of the United States.
“What Google is doing here is to change the name of the continental platform of Mexico and Cuba, which has nothing to do with Trump's decree, which was applied only to the United States continental platform,” said Sheinbaum. “We do not agree with this, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs has sent a new letter that addresses the issue.”
She says that Mexico is waiting for a new Google response to her request that the Technology Company restored the name of the Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before submitting a demand.
Sheinbaum shared a letter addressed to his Government of Cris Turner, vice president of Government and Public Policies of Google, who said that Google will not change the policy he described after Trump declared the body of water the Gulf of America.
“We will wait for Google's response and, if not, we will proceed to the Court,” Sheinbaum said Monday during a morning press conference.
As is, the Gulf appears in Google Maps as “Gulf of America” within the United States, such as “Gulfo de México” within Mexico and “Gulf de México (Gulf of America)” in Canada and in other places . In his letter, Turner said that the company was using the Gulf of America to follow “Long Map Policies in an impartial and consisting of all regions” and that the company was willing to meet in person with the Mexican government.
“While international treaties and conventions do not intend to regulate how private mapping suppliers represent geographical characteristics, it is our consistent policy to consult multiple authorized sources to provide the most up -to -date and precise representation of the world,” he wrote.
In response to the Google letter, the Mexican authorities said they would take legal measures, writing that “under no circumstances will accept the change of name of a geographical area within its own territory and under its jurisdiction.”
Sheinbaum said previously that Mexico could file a civil lawsuit against Google.
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She has repeatedly denounced the movement, arguing that the name of the “Gulf of Mexico” has been recognized internationally. On February 13, he said that Google had not resolved the previous complaints of Mexico.
“If necessary, we will file a civil demand,” he said. “Even President Trump is not proposing that the entire Gulf of Mexico be called the 'Gulf of America', but only its continental platform. Then Google is wrong.”
He urged Google to review the Decree of the White House, arguing “the only place where it was effective was (United States) has sovereignty, or up to 22 nautical miles on the coast.”
Together with the legal threat to Google, the Mexican president also announced on Monday that Mexico and the United States would hold high -level meetings this week about trade and security in an effort to maintain a “long -term collaboration plan” among the two countries.
It is the last round of conversations between the two countries where Mexico hopes to stop a larger geopolitical crisis.
Last week, Sheinbaum threatened American gunmen with legal actions if the Trump administration continues with its intentions to declare Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
“If they declare these groups of crimes organized as terrorists, we will not have the option to extend our demands against the United States, because as the Department of Justice has already confessed, 74 percent of all firearms in possession of posters of Drugs come from the United States, “Sheinbaum said.
“So, where are the assemblies after the designation?” She added.
During his press conference on February 14, he said that a new position could include an alleged “complicity” of arms manufacturers with terrorist groups.
February 13, The New York Times He informed that the United States Department of State plans Classify criminal groups from Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador and Venezuela as “terrorist organizations.”
“The Executive Order requested the designations, saying that the posters constitute a threat of national security beyond that raised by traditional organized crime” and that the United States “would guarantee the total elimination” of the groups, “said the Times.
The report added that criminal groups and their members “could be labeled as foreign terrorist organizations or especially designated global terrorists” and “designations mean that the United States government can impose broad economic sanctions on groups and groups or entities linked them”.
The Times also reported that the posters directed in Mexico are the Sinaloa cartel, United Cartel, the Michoacan family, the Northeast poster and the New Generation poster of Jalisco.
Last August, an American judge dismissed a claim of $ 10 billion filed by the Mexican government against six weapons manufacturers in the United States. Mexico had argued that companies knew that weapons were sold to the traffickers who smuggled them in Mexico and decided to take advantage of that market.
However, the judge ruled that Mexico had not provided concrete evidence that none of the six activities of the companies in Massachusetts were connected with any suffering caused in Mexico by weapons.
Earlier this month, Sheinbaum accused the United States to house drug cartels, and said that US citizens are working with groups of crimes organized in Mexico after Trump's “defamatory” statements that Mexico had joined forces with the drug traffickers
“There is also organized crime in the United States and there are American people who come to Mexico with these illegal activities,” said Sheinbaum During a press conference February 13. “Otherwise, who would distribute fentanil in the cities of the United States?”
Sheinbaum was responding to a journalist from the news of animal policy, who mentioned a research they published This week, which found that more than 2,600 US citizens were arrested in Mexico for crimes related to organized crime, including smuggling of drugs and firearms, since the former president of Mexico, Andrés, Manuel López, Obrador, assumed the position in December 2018.
“The problem is not just that drugs pass from Mexico to the United States,” he added.
Sheinbaum said Mexico is willing to work with the United States government in security matters in Mexico, but emphasized that the United States government also has to “do its job” to “avoid drug trafficking in your country” .
“In the United States, they also have to act,” he said.
– With Associated Press files