Mexico President responds to Trump: “We could call the US Mexican America”

The President-elect of the United States had declared that he wanted to name the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, Agenzia Nova reports.

Taking up the name proposed in the 17th century, North America could be called “Mexican America”. This was said by the president of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum, responding to the promise of the US president-elect, Donald Trump, to want to give the Gulf of Mexico – once he has taken office in the White House – the name Gulf of America.

“Why don’t we call (the United States) Mexican America? It has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?” Sheinbaum said, showing a map drawn up in 1607 by the Amsterdam East India Company.

A globe on which the term “Mexican America” appears, the same term that would be adopted in the first constitution of Mexico (Constitution of Apatzingán, 1814).

Sheinbaum also recalled that the term Gulf of Mexico is registered with international organizations, first and foremost the United Nations, and is considered a lexical reference for navigators “since the XNUMXth century, before the United States was born”.

Sheinbaum also responded to Trump's comments that Mexico is essentially in the hands of drug cartels.

"I think, with all due respect, President Trump was misinformed. I think he was told that (former President Felipe Calderon) and (Genaro) Garcia Moon,” an official who for more than a decade has governed the fate of Mexico's security but who was found guilty of collusion with the cartels, and sentenced to 38 years in prison.

The president also assured that relations with the incoming US administration will be good.

“I continue to think that we will have a good relationship with President Trump,” Sheinbaum said during the traditional daily press conference. “What do I base this on? The fact that there was a good relationship with (former president Andrés Manuel) Lopez Obrador. Let's wait. We will have a good relationship with Trump,” she said.

It was previously reported that President-elect Donald Trump reaffirmed his commitment to imposing new tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China, framing the move as a response to the fentanyl crisis and other border concerns.