Mexican president pushes back against Google’s renaming of Gulf of Mexico

Google Maps is planning to comply with President Donald Trump’s govt order to rename a number of American landmarks, together with the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Nonetheless, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned in a press conference on Wednesday that Mexico will ship a letter to Google questioning its option to replace the physique of water’s identify.

Earlier this week, Google addressed its determination in a post on X: “We’ve a longstanding observe of making use of identify modifications once they have been up to date in official authorities sources.”

The corporate added that when official names range between nations, Google Maps customers will see the official identify as per their very own nation, whereas customers elsewhere will see each names.