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5. Inappropriate though the comment may be, at least her concern is more of an environmental nature.

But among Latin American right-wingers, it's not uncommon to hear wishes "this virus kills millions of (blacks/indians, etc.)"

In neighboring Argentina there was a stir last week when Julio Carballo, a recently-defeated small-town councilman from former President Mauricio Macri's "Let's Change" coalition, declared that: "I only hope that this pandemic will do an ethnic cleansing that we all deserve."

"For me, the virus should slaughter 5 or 6 million blacks - fewer Peronists, less welfare checks. Maybe then this country can move forward."

Not unlike so many Republicans here in the U.S., this sentiment is very common among right-wing voters in Argentina - and indeed much of Latin America.