Aligned with Donald Trump, Google changes the name of the Gulf of Mexico on their maps

Just a week after Donald Trump’s possession as president of the United States, the company Google has decided to use the name of “Gulf of America“To replace Gulf of Mexico following the orders issued by the US President.

As explained on Tuesday the multinational in the social network X, Google has decided to update the name of the Gulf on its maps for the United States, since this is the current official name of the Gulf for the country.

“We have received some questions about the names on Google Maps. We have a long data practice when applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources,” Google explains in his message.

Thus, the company announces that following these official sources, an update of what called Geographic Name Information System (GNIS) will be produced in the United States.

Besides, will modify Mount McKinleylocated in Alaska, formerly called Monte Denalim.

However, American technology warns that changes They will only affect users who access maps in the United Statessince in the rest of the world the two denominations will be maintained.

“When official names vary between countries, users of ‘Maps’ come the local official name. In the rest of the world, all see both names. This also applies in this case, “they explained.

Trump, among his first initiatives after assuming the position on January 20, decided In Alaska.

He did it to return his previous name to that mountain, who honored President William McKinley (1897-1901), whom Trump admires for his use of tariffs as a political tool and his colonialist history.

The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said Tuesday that the Gulf of Mexico will continue to be called thus despite the fact that Google announced her change to “Gulf of America.”

“The Gulf of Mexico is still a gulf of Mexico,” said the ruler in her morning conference.

Sheinbaum minimized the implications of Google’s decision, which explained on Tuesday in the social network X that renamed the Gulf in its maps for the United States, with the argument that it is the current official name of the body of water in that country.

The president showed Trump’s executive order that indicates that the name change applies only for the American continental platform, but reiterated that for the rest of the world it is still a gulf of Mexico, a name that appears on maps since the seventeenth century.

“It is very important because that is what he signed, the United States continental platform, then Let’s not speculate anymore This is what is signed by President Trump, “he said.

The White House leader fulfilled on his first day in office, on January 20, with his promise to call him “Gulf of America” ​​to the Gulf of Mexico for considering that Mexico is “governed by the posters” of drug trafficking and is ” A very insecure place. ”

But Sheinbaum defended his strategy of reacting with the “cold head” to the actions of the new US president, who has also declared an emergency at the border, has reinstated the “Stay in Mexico” immigration program, and has appointed terrorists to Mexican cartels .

“I said it from the first day of the protest of President Trump, we have a responsibility. So what we rely on? On what was signed, that’s why I say cold head, this is what was signed, which is his Continental platform, “he said.