Who is the MTR militant arrested and accused of attacking Cristina Kirchner's office

Jaru Alexander Rodriguez Carrero is 29 years old. He was born in Venezuela on June 15, 1992. He doesn't have a criminal record. He entered the country for the first time on October 12, 2015. It crossed from the Uruguayan city of Cologne by sea. He did it for the Buquebus company. He spent about fourteen hours and went back on board. He is a member of one of the five factions in which the Teresa Rodríguez Movement (MTR) is divided. Alexander responds organically to the Historical MTR.

A year later, the man arrested for throwing stones at the senate office of Vice President Cristina Kirchner returned to the country. It was on July 30; he arrived on board the airline LAN Chile and left on August 13 through the same company.

That was the first time that MTR militants were contacted through acquaintances that the organization had with peers in Venezuela and Bolivia, where they also spent a long period of time.

The last time he entered Argentina, or at least that his passage was recorded, was on February 21, 2018. On that occasion, he entered from the Villazón border crossing, in La Quiaca, he came from Bolivia. From that date until now, he is a member of the MTR.

According to its Facebook page, it also holds meetings and marches along with another of the spin-off spaces of the Historical MTR: the Cuba MTR of Zona Norte, which has one of its main operating bases in San Isidro. He was just arrested at a property located in Acasusso.

Although, during these hours, members of the MTR are trying to “take off” from the detainee and to keep the Teresa Rodríguez Movement as far as possible away from the aggressions against the National Congress and specifically the office of the former president, militants from that same space who demonstrated against the agreement with the International Monetary Fund on 10 March, they assured Infobae that “the thing started for organizational reasons”. Apparently, several left-wing organizations, in addition to some of the aspects of the MTR such as Votamos Luchar, Cuba MRT and MTR Histórico, “taking advantage of the smoke of the burning of gums, which it was agreed to do, began throwing stones and objects at the building”, according to that account, “there the quilombo was activated ”.

On the MTR's own Facebook pages, photos were published throwing blunt objects on parliament.

According to AFIP records, Rodríguez Carrero does not record any type of activity.

The Venezuelan citizen was arrested last night, after three searches carried out jointly by the City Police and the DDI of San Isidro. The MTR militant is one of eight suspected of having attacked the Vice-President's office amid protests held last week in front of the National Congress when the agreement was being discussed with the International Monetary Fund.

Rodríguez joins another suspect who had been arrested in the first instance on Thursday for confronting the police and was later identified through security cameras as one of the aggressors of the former Head of State.

There are two open causes for the attack. One is investigated by the Criminal Court, Contraventional and Misdemeanors 23 and the East Tax Unit of the City of Buenos Aires, which ordered a series of raids. They were the ones that took place last night. The first was in the Buenos Aires town of Florencio Varela, at the headquarters of the Teresa Rodríguez Movement, where there were no detainees but flags and other items that would have been used during last Thursday's march were seized. In a second procedure, carried out at a home in Acasusso located on Güemes Street, Rodriguez was arrested.

In the next few hours, the courts will order new searches, including the home of one of the historic leaders of the Teresa Rodríguez Movement. The measures would be handed down in the context of the second judicial case and which is being investigated by federal judge María Eugenia Capuchetti, who identified the eight persons as material authors of the stones against the office of the president of the Senate.

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