Thread by @MIAagainstFash

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/

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/

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/

https://twitter.com/miaagainstfash/status/1529831772011352066?s=21&t=oCAaGv9l9pYf48FDYDMK9A

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/

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/

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.
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Of course Alexander Otaola was not smart enough to delete his November 1, 2017 Instagram post about the segment. 🤷🏿‍♂️ 8/

instagram.com/p/Ba9G7fUFMD-/…

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

https://twitter.com/alexotaola/status/1517868853719703553

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.

Always so predictable!

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