{"id":139044,"date":"2026-02-19T18:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139044\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:56:29","slug":"ny-pol-who-went-to-suburban-school-with-bronx-girl-aoc-blasts-her-for-latest-social-studies-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139044\/","title":{"rendered":"NY pol who went to suburban school with \u2018Bronx girl\u2019 AOC blasts her for latest \u2018social studies\u2019 fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An upstate pol and former classmate of Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is once again putting her on blast for her <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/16\/us-news\/wannabe-foreign-policy-pro-aoc-lampooned-for-claiming-venezuela-is-below-equator\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest geography screw up<\/a> \u2013 this time claiming that Venezuela sits below the equator.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/25\/us-news\/ny-pol-dismantles-aocs-bronx-girl-tough-talk-with-one-old-yearbook-photo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she spent her formative years<\/a> in Westchester County.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38540600\" width=\"286\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/nys-assembly-republican-conference-new-10946303_acf7f2.jpg\" alt=\"New York State Assembly Member Matt Slater smiling, wearing a dark suit, light blue patterned shirt, and dark blue tie with small light dots, with an American flag to his left.\" class=\"wp-image-38540600\" style=\"width:286px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:0.6640625;display:block\"  \/>NYS Assemblyman Matt Slater criticized his former classmate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez NYS Assembly Republican Conference<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m 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,\u201d Assemblyman Matt Slater (R-Putnam), a classmate of AOC\u2019s at the time told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Nicolas] Maduro canceled elections. He was an anti-democratic leader,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said of the recently nabbed former Venezuelan president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean that we can kidnap a head of state and engage in acts of war just because the nation is below the equator,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An upstate pol and former classmate of Democratic socialist Rep. 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