{"id":27603,"date":"2025-01-08T16:54:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T23:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=27603"},"modified":"2025-01-13T10:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:07:42","slug":"mexican-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/mexican-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Why don&#039;t we call it Mexican America? Mexican President retorts to Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27599\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27599 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Golfo-de-Mexico-Sheinbaum-8-de-enero.jpg\" alt=\"Why don&#039;t we call it Mexican America? President of Mexico retaliates against Donald Trump\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Golfo-de-Mexico-Sheinbaum-8-de-enero.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Golfo-de-Mexico-Sheinbaum-8-de-enero-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Golfo-de-Mexico-Sheinbaum-8-de-enero-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Golfo-de-Mexico-Sheinbaum-8-de-enero-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Golfo-de-Mexico-Sheinbaum-8-de-enero-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Golfo-de-Mexico-Sheinbaum-8-de-enero-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Golfo-de-Mexico-Sheinbaum-8-de-enero-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Golfo-de-Mexico-Sheinbaum-8-de-enero-1068x712.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Trump, president-elect of the United States, announced that he wants to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, to which the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He responded to his comment by questioning why we don&#039;t call North America Mexican America.<\/span> Photo: Presidency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Listen to this note:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27603-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Viviana-6346043.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Viviana-6346043.mp3\">https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Viviana-6346043.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the president-elect of the United States on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, declared that she intends to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the Mexican president <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Claudiashein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Claudia Sheinbaum<\/a> He responded to his comment by questioning why we don&#039;t call North America Mexican America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the morning press conference of the Mexican president, Jos\u00e9 Alfonso Su\u00e1rez del Real, political advisor to the Social Communication Coordination of the Presidency of the Republic, pointed out that the name of the Gulf of Mexico is recognized by international organizations, so it cannot be changed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&quot;The name of the Gulf of Mexico, sadly, but also historically, is registered with international organizations and has been considered a nautical reference since the 16th century, before the United States existed,&quot; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The official showed a world map from 1607, published by a Flemish man for the Amsterdam East Indies Company, which for the first time showed what is now Mexican America, which was basically what we know today as North America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&quot;It has been recognized since the beginning of the 17th century as the name of the entire northern part of the continent itself, and between Florida and Yucatan, the Gulf of Mexico is recognized as a fundamental nautical point for navigation in that century and beyond,&quot; said Su\u00e1rez del Real.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So much so, he said, that Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Morelos y Pav\u00f3n made the constitutional decree for the freedom of Mexican America in the 1814 constitution in Apatzing\u00e1n.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In light of the above, President Claudia Sheinbaum called for North America to be called Mexican America, as it was known in the 17th century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cObviously the Gulf of Mexico, its name is recognized by the United Nations, but why don\u2019t we call it Mexican America? It sounds nice, doesn\u2019t it? Right? Since 1607, the Constitution of Apatzing\u00e1n was of Mexican America. So we are going to call it Mexican America, it sounds nice,\u201d he stressed, while recalling that the Gulf of Mexico has also been recognized since that date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, he said, President-elect Donald Trump is misinformed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI believe that yesterday President Trump was misinformed, with all due respect to President Trump, because I believe he was informed that Felipe Calder\u00f3n and Garc\u00eda Luna were still governing in Mexico, but no, Mexico is governed by the people,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, he said smiling, it is necessary to wait for Donald Trump to officially take office, an act that will take place on January 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe talked about the name, we also talked about the name. North America has been called Mexican America since 1607. So, we have to wait until he becomes president and in any case there is international law, and I still think that there will be good relations with President Trump. What do I base this on? Well, there were good relations with President L\u00f3pez Obrador, and there has to be a relationship of mutual respect, of collaboration, not subordination, and of respect.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/attacks-in-new-orleans-and-las-vegas-2\/\">Trump lashes out at immigrants, despite attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas involving former US military personnel<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escucha esta nota: &nbsp; Luego de que este martes el presidente electo de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, declarara que tiene la intenci\u00f3n de que se cambie el nombre del Golfo de M\u00e9xico por Golfo de Am\u00e9rica, la presidenta mexicana Claudia Sheinbaum revir\u00f3 a su comentario cuestionando por qu\u00e9 no le llamamos Am\u00e9rica Mexicana a Am\u00e9rica [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-usworld"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27733,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27603\/revisions\/27733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}