Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum sent a letter to Google contesting the tech giant’s decision to comply with US President Donald Trump’s order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote a letter asking Google to reject the U.S. decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on its mapping service. The president of Mexico read the letter during her daily news briefing discussing Google's decision to follow "the mandate of a country" to change the name of "an international sea" and jokingly suggested Mexico might ask Google to add "Mexican America.

The renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” on Google Maps for US users, ordered by President Trump, has sparked tensions between the US and Mexico. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum presented a formal letter to Google,