Mexico City, January 31 (RHC)-- The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, presented a letter to Google on Thursday in which she explains the reasons why the name of the Gulf of Mexico cannot be modified on the map platform, after President Donald Trump ordered it to be renamed "Gulf of America."
In the letter, addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the president said that "the name has a well-documented historical origin." She also recalled the existence of 12 bilateral treaties in use where it is stated that the name of the ocean basin is the Gulf of Mexico, in such a way that it recognizes "the international legal order and therefore, its validation of the legal framework of the two countries."
The Mexican president argued that the term "has been accepted and used by the international community, including the United States of America since its independence in 1776 to date, uninterruptedly."
In this sense, she assured that it is not "an imposition of a single government source, as Google wrongly suggests, but rather it is a name accepted and historically registered," so much so that it has become an "international custom."
The letter also stated that Donald Trump's executive order "has effects exclusively within his country for a fraction of the Gulf of Mexico, specifically with regard to the continental shelf of the United States."
Claudia Sheinbaum, after citing international standards, pointed out that "if a country wants to change the name of something in the sea, it would only be for the 22 nautical miles, it cannot be for the rest, in this case the Gulf of Mexico."
She also asked Google that "when you put 'Mexican America'" in the search engine "the map that we presented on some occasion appears."
The Mexican president sent the letter to the multinational company Google, after the name of the Gulf of Mexico was changed to the Gulf of America on the maps of the United States, following the order that the U.S. government signed last week.
The company specified that the changes will only be seen by users who access its search engines from the United States
[ SOURCE: teleSUR ]