The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced on Friday that she had launched the prosecution against Google (Alphabet), accused of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” in her cartography service for US users. This decision, visible since January on Google Maps in the United States, follows a decree signed by Donald Trump on January 20.
“The complaint has already appeared,” Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed during his morning conference, without revealing legal details. In February, he warned Alphabet, a mother -in -law of Google, who would trigger a court if the controversial mention was not corrected.
Geographic sovereignty attack
Donald Trump’s decree, now strengthened by a vote of the House of Representatives, only applies to the American continental plateau. It is at this point that the Mexican government, from the nationalist left, founded its action in …