An upstate pol and former classmate of Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is once again putting her on blast for her latest geography screw up – this time claiming that Venezuela sits below the equator.
Ocasio-Cortez made the embarrassing gaffe while trying to show off her foreign policy chops at the Munich Security Conference in Germany this past weekend.
But it’s not the first time the lefty pol has gotten her geography confused. The Bronx pol has bragged that she was raised in the boogie down borough, even though she spent her formative years in Westchester County.
“I’m sure the Social Studies Department at Yorktown High School is just as embarrassed as everyone else that their most famous student has failed geography on the world stage,” Assemblyman Matt Slater (R-Putnam), a classmate of AOC’s at the time told The Post.
Ocasio-Cortez, who majored in global studies, had claimed on the panel at the security conference that Venezuela sits below the equator while the country actually sits just above the line.
“[Nicolas] Maduro canceled elections. He was an anti-democratic leader,” Ocasio-Cortez said of the recently nabbed former Venezuelan president.
“That doesn’t mean that we can kidnap a head of state and engage in acts of war just because the nation is below the equator,” she added.
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