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Brazilian Minister Fired for Failing Geography Test

The Brazilian Minister of Education was let go from her post recently for publishing incorrect maps of Ecuador, Paraguay and Uruguay in school books. “The governor of Brazil’s richest state Sao Paulo sacked the Secretary of Education following the printing of thousands of school books with maps of South America which ignored the existence of Ecuador, inverted geographically Uruguay and Paraguay and showed Bolivia sharing territory with Paraguay,” reports MercoPress.

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