Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom, who was unceremoniously fired from the Boston Celtics after publicly blaming the Chinese Communist Party, spent much of the week in Florida meeting members of Cuban exiles and expressing hope and solidarity against communism.
On Monday, Kanter Freedom shot a video in support of the pro-democracy movement in Cuba with anti-communist rapper El Fanqui and fellow athlete Yordenis Ugas, a boxing champion who successfully returned the island in his seventh attempt and has already been jailed six times. to try to leave. Ugas used his freedom in America to encourage Cubans on the island to continue to protest and overthrow the 63-year-old communist regime.
Kanter Freedom’s video and visit to Florida comes after years of Kanter Fried’s activism against the Castro regime’s allies, as well as the first reports of the anniversary of the July 11, 2021 protests honoring those arrested and silenced after calling for the overthrow of the regime. such as China, Turkey and Venezuela.
To all my Cuban brothers in the world,
We have a message for you
From me, Yordenis Ugas and El Fanki.Enough is enough and it’s time for the world to stand up #Cuba#SOSCuba pic.twitter.com/e8jOzqrDhg
— Enes SVOBODA (@EnesFreedom) 25 July 2022
“Don’t despair,” Kanter told Freedom in the video. “Trust all my Cuban brothers and sisters, one day we will go to Cuba for free and drink delicious Cuban coffee.”
“My message to the Cuban regime is that every dictatorship will fall and you will fall, and believe me, the Cuban people will be free again,” said Kanter.
In a video, El Fanqui, one of Cuba’s most famous anti-communist rappers, asked Cubans to “keep their faith and hope… we here support you as a community of exiles.” The rapper was one of the performers of the song “Patria y Vida” (“Father and Life”), which became a protest song in 2021, and its title is a battle cry against communist slogans. patria or death (“Father or death”).
Ugas, who was sentenced to be exiled from the island for nine years after leaving and could not see his family, called for Freedom to “continue” in the messages he gave to Kantera.
“We have to preserve the faith; 63 years later, very little of them remains,” said Ugas.
Kanter Freedom spent the rest of his time in Miami meeting with other victims of the communist regime in Cuba and leaders of the Miami political community who lauded him for giving up his NBA fame to defend his principles.
“This is a man who sacrificed not only his life, but the dream he had worked for all his life,” the rep said. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) of Spanish network América Teve is in an interview in Miami this week. . “He worked here in the NBA as a professional basketball player and for the simple reason that he spoke out for human rights, but especially human rights in communist China, he was censored, he lost his career, he was not allowed to speak, he was not allowed to speak. He lost all his contracts.”
El baloncesestista and defensor de los derechos humanos @EnesOzgurluk visiting Miami este viernes junto al congresista @MarioDB. I reported for America TeVe pic.twitter.com/uqEWdxUB3z
— Mario J. Penton (@MarioJPenton) 23 July 2022
A world champion of democracy after years of persecution by his hometown of Turkey, Kanter Freedom has spent most of his NBA career denouncing Turkish Islamist leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In response, the Erdogan regime issued more than nine arrest warrants for the athlete on fabricated terrorism charges and unsuccessfully tried to force Interpol to help Turkey arrest him.
Kanter Freedom is a member of an Islamic movement called Hizmet, which Erdogan’s Turkey falsely labeled as a terrorist organization and actively prosecuted. Erdogan blames the leader of the movement, Pennsylvania cleric Fethullah Gulen, for the alleged failed coup attempt in Turkey in 2016; US officials said Turkey did not provide any substantial evidence linking high-ranking clerics to the incident.
Kanter’s freedom speeches for a free Turkey did not affect his NBA career in any way, although Erdogan arrested his father and forced his family to blame him publicly. However, the Chinese government censored the affected NBA games when he started wearing sneakers on NBA courts with messages of support for various groups brutally suppressed by the Chinese Communist Party, such as Tibetans, Uighurs, and Falun Gong practitioners. league finance. In November, the Boston Celtics fired Kanter Freed and eventually fired him for the remainder of last season, leaving him without a team and from the NBA.
Although the Chinese Communist Party is currently involved in the genocide of the Muslim Turkic peoples in East Turkestan, it maintains close ties with Islamist Turkey, making it a natural enemy of Kanter’s freedom. The Chinese and Turkish regimes also maintain economic and political ties with Cuba and Venezuela, whose dictators have been condemned by Kanter Freedom. Erdogan and Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro have openly supported each other, particularly against human rights activists and US sanctions.
“Brother Maduro, stand tall, Turkey supports you,” Erdogan said in a phone call to Maduro in 2019, according to a presidential spokesman.
Erdogan’s Turkey opened a park in memory of bloody Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro in 2017, after the Communist Party announced his death in late 2016.
In an interview with Fox News in December, Kanter Freedom described its stance against all dictatorships as a divine call.
“My aim is to talk not just about Turkey or China, but about all dictatorships in the world. And I will take them one by one,” said Kanter Freedom at the time. “Because I believe this platform was given to me by God. And there is something about me, I am not afraid of anything.”
Source: Breitbart
