Gulf Wars

Mexico wants its Gulf back:

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the lawsuit on Friday and wants the oceanic region’s name restored to the Gulf of Mexico. President Donald Trump changed the name with an executive order as one of his first pieces of business when he took office for the second time. The order reportedly only carries authority within the United States. Sheinbaum threatened to sue Google in February. She provided no details in Friday’s announcement in terms of the legal basis for the suit. In February, however, the Mexican president argued that Trump’s name change decree should be restricted to the “continental shelf of the United States” because Mexico still controls much of the Gulf. “We have sovereignty over our continental shelf,” she said at the time. Mexico’s Foreign Relations Ministry has also been hitting Google with letters that urged its map service not to relabel the body of water.

In the end, it's just a lot of water...