On Tuesday, she toned it down: “For us and for the entire world it will continue to be called the Gulf of Mexico.” Map lines are inherently political. After all, they're representations of the ...
Standing before a 17th-century world map in her daily press briefing, Sheinbaum proposed dryly that North America should be renamed "América Mexicana," or "Mexican America," because a founding ...
One is labelled Santa Barbara, the other Santa Ana. So this map shows us the indigenous Mexican population and their land-holdings, and the new Spanish churches of the 'conquistadores'.