Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico will have legal action against Google if the card showed to American users continues to label the Gulf of Mexico like the Gulf of America Throughout the water plane.
At a press conference on Monday, Sheinbaum argued that the American president Donald Trump In order to rename the body of water only applies to part of the continental tray under American control.
“What Google does here is changing the name of the continental plateau of Mexico and Cuba, which has nothing to do with Trump’s decree, which only applies to the American continental platform “Said Sheinbaum. “We do not agree with this, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs sent a new letter concerning the issue.”
She says Mexico is expecting a new response from Google at her request that the technology company fully restores the name The Gulf of Mexico at its Google Maps service Before filing a prosecution.
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 it described after Trump declared the plan of Water from the Gulf of America.
“We will wait for Google’s response and if not, we will proceed in court,” said Sheinbaum on Monday during a morning press briefing.
As it stands, the Gulf appears in Google Maps as “Gulf of America” in the United States, as “Gulf of Mexico” in Mexico and “Gulf of Mexico (American Gulf)” in Canada and elsewhere. In his letter, Turner said that the company used the Gulf of America to follow “longtime card policies in an impartial and consistent manner in all regions” and that the company was ready to meet in person with the Mexican government .
“Although international treaties and conventions are not intended to regulate how private mapping suppliers represent geographic characteristics, it is our coherent policy to consult multiple sources that provide the most up to date and precise representation of the most precise world, “he wrote.
In response to Google’s letter, the Mexican authorities have declared that they would take legal action, writing that “in no case would Mexico accept the change of name of a geographic area on its own territory and under its jurisdiction” .
Sheinbaum previously said that Mexico could bring civil action against Google.
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She has repeatedly criticized the moveArguing that the name of the “Gulf of Mexico” has long been recognized internationally. On February 13, she said Google had not resolved The previous complaints of Mexico.
“If necessary, we will put a civil action,” she said. “Even President Trump does not propose that the whole Gulf of Mexico be called the” Gulf of America “, but only their continental plateau. So Google is wrong. “”
She urged Google to review the Decree of the White House, arguing “the only place where it was effective was the place where (the United States) have sovereignty, or up to 22 sea kilometers from the coast. »»
In addition to the legal threat to Google, the Mexican president also announced on Monday that Mexico and the United States would organize high-level meetings this week on trade and security in order to maintain a “long-term collaboration plan” between the two countries.
This is the last series of talks between the two countries where Mexico hopes to retain a greater geopolitical crisis.
Last week, Sheinbaum Led shooting shooters with legal action if Trump The administration is under its intentions to declare Mexican drugs cartels as terrorist organizations.
“If they declare these crime groups organized as terrorists, we will have no option to extend our proceedings against the United States, because as the Ministry of Justice has already confessed, 74% of all Firearms in possession of drug cartels come from the United States, “Sheinbaum said.
“So where is the armor after the designation?” She added.
During her press conference on February 14, she said that a new accusation could include an alleged “complicity” of shooters with terrorist groups.
On February 13, the New York Times indicated that the US State Department provided for Classify criminal groups from Mexico, Colombia, Salvador and Venezuela as “terrorist organizations”.
“The decree called for designations, claiming that cartels” constitute a national security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime “and that the United States” would ensure total elimination “,” reported the Times.
The report added that criminal groups and their members “could be labeled foreign terrorist organizations or specially designated global terrorists” and “designations mean that the United States government can impose vast economic sanctions on groups and people or entities related to them”.
Times also reported that the targeted cartels in Mexico are the Sinaloa cartelUnited Cartel, The Michoacana Family, The Northeast Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel.
Last August, an American judge rejected a trial of 10 billion dollars brought by the Mexican government against six manufacturers of American firearms. Mexico had argued that companies knew that weapons were sold to traffickers who had introduced them as a smuggling in Mexico and decided to take advantage of this market.
However, the judge ruled that Mexico had not provided concrete evidence according to which none of the activities of the six companies in the Massachusetts was linked to any suffering caused in Mexico by firearms.
Earlier this month, Sheinbaum accused the United States of feeding drug cartelsAnd said that American citizens worked with groups of organized crimes in Mexico after Trump’s “slanderous” claims that Mexico had united their forces with drug traffickers.
“There is also a crime organized in the United States and there are Americans who come to Mexico with these illegal activities,” said Sheinbaum During a press conference February 13. “Otherwise, which would distribute fentanyl In the cities of the United States? »»
Sheinbaum reacted to a journalist from the Político Animal news store, who mentioned a Investigation they published This week which discovered that more than 2,600 American citizens had been arrested in Mexico for organized crime offenses, including smuggling of drugs and firearms, since the former president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in December 2018.
“The problem is not only that drugs go from Mexico to the United States,” she added.
Sheinbaum said Mexico was ready to work with the American government on security issues in Mexico, but it stressed that the US government should also “do its job” to “avoid trafficking in their country”.
“In the United States, they must also act,” she said.
– With files from the Associated Press
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