Enrique Tarrio is an American activist who serves as chairman of the Proud Boys, a far-right, neo-fascist, and exclusively male organization that promotes and engages in political violence in the United States.
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Tarrio, who is Cuban-American and of Afro-Cuban background, served as the Florida state director of the grassroots organization Latinos for Trump.
In 2020, Tarrio was a candidate in the Republican primary election for Florida’s 27th congressional district but withdrew.
According to a former federal prosecutor and the transcripts of a 2014 federal court proceeding, Tarrio had previously served as an informant to both federal and local law enforcement.
Tarrio volunteered at a Miami event for far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in May 2017 when he encountered a member of the Proud Boys who encouraged him to join it.
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In August 2017, Tarrio attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials.
Facts About Enrique Tarrio
Tarrio told Heavy that under his leadership the group will “not change what we do.”
Tarrio says the group’s masturbation law Is ‘some type of joke’ that could be a way of bringing the left & right together.
Tarrio was raised in a Cuban family in Little Havana in Miami.
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