Enrique Tarrio is the chairman of the Proud Boys, a far-right, neo-fascist and male-only political organization. In 2020, he was a candidate in the Republican primary election for Florida’s 27th congressional district, but withdrew. He grew up in Little Havana, a neighborhood in Miami, Florida, and identifies as Afro-Cuban.
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Enrique Tarrio is the chairman of the Proud Boys, a far-right, neo-fascist and male-only political organization. In 2020, he was a candidate in the Republican primary election for Florida’s 27th congressional district, but withdrew. Tarrio grew up in Little Havana, a neighborhood in Miami, Florida, and identifies as Afro-Cuban. In 2004, when he was 20 years old, Tarrio was convicted of theft. He was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for rebranding and reselling stolen medical devices.
He is the Florida state director of the grassroots organization Latinos for Trump. In 2018, Twitter removed Tarrio’s account, amongst others related to the Proud Boy, citing how platform policy prohibited accounts related to violent extremist groups. In regards to his own ethnicity, he has said, ‘I’m pretty brown, I’m Cuban. There’s nothing white supremacist about me’
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