With the projection of a map from 1607 that shows the territory of northern Mexico and part of the United States mixed, President Claudia Sheinbaum, without waiting to be questioned by the press, has proposed renaming that joint geography as ‘Mexican America’ : “Why don’t we call it ‘Mexican America’? It sounds nice, doesn’t it? Since 1607, the Constitution of Apatzingán was from Mexican America. So, let’s call it that,” said the president, during the first moments of her conference this Wednesday. Sheinbaum also recalled that the Gulf of Mexico is recognized and has been registered as such by international institutions.
“I believe that yesterday, President Trump was misinformed that Felipe Calderón and García Luna were still ruling in Mexico, but no. In Mexico, the people govern,” said Shienbaum, at the end of the presentation that began his daily appearance before the media. The president has decided to get ahead of the questions she was already expecting, after the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, proposed changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to call it the “Gulf of America,” in a press conference this Tuesday. from his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. And in a clear intention that the term referred to his country – which its citizens usually refer to as “America” – rather than a tribute to the continent.
“What a beautiful name, and so appropriate,” the Republican has insisted on his proposal, in a spiral of expansionist statements in which he has also pointed to the Panama Canal – about recovering control – and his neighbor Canada – to consider it a State more than the United States—, or to Greenland, with the proposal to buy that territory that belongs to Denmark.
In a carefree tone and even with a certain irony, Shienbaum asked José Alfonso Suárez del Real, historian and political advisor to the communication coordination, this Wednesday to explain the origins of the name of the Gulf of Mexico, to respond to Trump: “Between Florida and Yucatán recognize the Mexican Gulf as a fundamental nautical point for navigation from the 17th century onwards. The name ‘Mexican America’ existed before the first group of pilgrims arrived to populate Virginia, that is, at the end of 1607,” said Suárez del Real.
The Gulf of Mexico is a maritime region that is part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is located in the east of Mexican territory, next to the States of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche and Yucatán. In US territory, the Gulf wets the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida; It is located northwest of Cuba and west of the Bahamas. Mexico and the United States share agreements on the limits of maritime territory, for navigation and economic activities, in the 1.6 million square kilometers of the total surface of that region.
The name change to “Gulf of America” is one more of the threats that Trump has launched since he won the elections last November, against Mexico, which he has again accused of being “essentially” controlled by cartels. of the drug and to which he has reiterated his threat of imposing tariffs if the Sheinbaum Government does not manage to radically stop the trafficking of fentanyl to the United States.
The Republican’s return to the White House anticipates a new hunt for big bosses, the designation of cartels as terrorist groups and exaggerated speeches that promise the end of fentanyl trafficking and organized crime. Although the scope of the president-elect’s threats continues to be the subject of debate, specialists anticipate that the blows will be recurring.
