At one point the Gulf of Mexico was called the Gulf of New Spain, and Mexico was referred to by the Spanish as New Spain.

"This is America dropping its pants and showing its empire tattoos,” San Diego State professor William Nericcio tells Gustavo Arellano after Trump renames the Gulf of Mexico.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ...

Sign the petition telling Google to uphold international norms, and maintain the Gulf of Mexico’s name on all versions of ...

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The Trump administration has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, but most of the body of water lies outside maritime regions controlled by the United States. Territorial seas ...

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Sign the petition now, we will deliver it to Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, demanding they keep the name “Gulf of Mexico.” We ...

Google has quietly removed key cultural holidays, including Black History Month and LGBTQ+ Pride Month, from its calendar app. The tech giant’s online and mobile calendar has for years marked the two ...

Other, lesser-known mapping services, including OpenStreetMap and HERE WeGo, also continue to use Gulf of Mexico as the official name. Although Google decided to follow Trump's executive order on ...

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