MEXICO CITY — Mexican first lady Beatriz Gutierrez sparked an uproar on social media on Wednesday with a Twitter comment widely viewed as insensitive when she swatted away a question about what she was doing to help parents of children with cancer. Gutierrez published a celebratory post on the two-year anniversary of the election victory of her husband President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in July 2018. Responding to her post, Twitter user Jose David Guerra asked: "When will you personally attend to the parents of children with cancer? Gutierrez responded, "I'm not a doctor, maybe you are. On you go, you help them," in a tweet that has since been deleted but was seen by Reuters and widely retweeted.

Source: New York Times July 01, 2020 20:37 UTC