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Let’s meet Miami’s new black face mayoral candidate, Alexander Otaola. @alexotaola

This “anti-communist” grifter personality is known for racist rants & disinformation on his “Hola Ota-Ola!” YouTube show but he’s also chummy w the Miami GOP and the Proud Boys. Let’s go! 🔥🧵1/ Top left: Miami Cuban media personality Alexander Otaola per
Alexander Otaola’s protest antics and his connection to pushing far-right false narratives are well documented by local media.

And local politicos like Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar have also been known to pull strings for him. 👮🏻‍♂️🚔 2/ “Hola Otaola! Can a racist demagogue be a serious defender“Some in Spanish language media falsely blame Black Lives
Alexander Otaola enjoys hobnobbing w the local Miami GOP scene. 🍸

He attended the @MiamiDadeGOP 2021 Christmas Party, posing with GOP chair Rene Garcia & alongside Jan 6 insurrectionist Barbara Balmaseda #PinkGaiterPBG + her BF, disgraced former exec director Brandon Diaz. 3/
Alexander Otaola, who is openly gay, hosted on his June 21 YouTube show Miami anti-LGBTQ hate pusher and Moms for Liberty chair Eulalia Jimenez.

Eulalia swore up and down she’s opposed to homophobia but her and M4L’s track record says otherwise. 🤥 4/

Top: Screen shot of Miami M4L chair Eulalia Jimenez appeari“‘Gender-confused illegal:’ far-right Miami groups hel
Accompanying Eulalia Jimenez to the interview and posing with Alexander Otaola was “low libido” Miami Proud Boy Nowell Salgueiro who holds a seat on Miami GOP executive committee.

Nowell is also known for shouting homophobic remarks at journalists and promoting Pinochet. 😬 5/ Left: Proud Boy Nowell Salgueiro, Alexander Otaola and Eulal
As to the insanely racist blackface segment Alexander Otaola hosted on his show, in 2017 he impersonated Cuban reggaeton artist Chocolate MC. 🎤

The artist threatened to sue Otaola in response and you can read more here: cubatrendings.com/2017/11/02/cho… 6/ Screen shot of show segment with Alexander Otaola performing
While Alexander Otaola set the episode on YouTube to private, fortunately it’s preserved in an edited segment linked here.

“I really have to open my eyes, otherwise you won’t be able to see me.” 👀

CW for massive anti-black racism.
/7 Screen shot of show segment with Alexander Otaola performing
Of course Alexander Otaola was not smart enough to delete his November 1, 2017 Instagram post about the segment. 🤷🏿‍♂️ 8/

instagram.com/p/Ba9G7fUFMD-/… Screen of of Nov 1, 2017 post on Alexander Otaola’s Instag
In fact, website AfroCubaWeb @afrocubaweb has compiled links and media around on racism in the white Cuban community — Alexander Otaola has 5 entries and even his own page.

White Supremacy and Miami Cubans: afrocubaweb.com/white-supremac…

Otaola: afrocubaweb.com/alex-otaola.ht… 9/
More of Alexander Otaola pressing the flesh with local Miami GOP figures at the Lincoln Day dinner: Marco Rubio, Rene Garcia, Joe Carollo and Ileana Garcia. 🍸🍸

@alexotaola @Hola_Otaola @MiamiDadeGOP
EXTRA: Apparently @alexotaola has picked up a few enemies.

Someone made a change.org petition giving this “anti-communist” activist a dose of his own medicine: accusing him of working for the Cuban government and demanding the US revoke his residency. 😂😂
EXTRA: A quick skim of Alex Otaola’s Twitter feed shows him retweeting the Post Millennial, the sinking outlet edited by far-right propagandist Andy Ngo, and the newly elected QAnon congresswoman Maya Flores.

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One of Florida’s worst creations, white MAGA rapper “Forgiato Blow” aka Kurt Jantz, has just posted that all his YouTube videos were just taken down. 1/ Image
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Meet the man currently nominated for a Florida State GOP Committeeman seat by the Miami GOP @MiamiDadeGOP.

Former Proud Boy & January 6th rioter Chris Barcenas. #USAPB

1/🧵 Top: Screen shot posted by former Miami Proud Boy Chris Barcenas. Search his hashtag #USAPB for our extensive reporting on him. Left: Barcenas in front of the Capitol building on J6. Additional photos place him on the steps of the building & he provided testimony to the Jan 6 Committee. Right; Barcenas at a Proud Boy rally in New York, circa 2021. All images and content from public sources and posted as part of our ongoing coverage of far-right extremism.
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This is also why the Miami GOP keeps membership a secret. 2/

nytimes.com/2022/06/02/us/…
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Last week we introduced Miami Proud Boy & III% militia supporter Ralph Verde. Today we reveal more.

Let’s dive deeper into Rafael Antonio Verde of Cutler Bay, FL — the brokest real estate, insurance & financing hustler we’ve ever come across! 🤑🧵 1/
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