The cause for freedom in Cuba and the historic Cuban exile community lost one of its heroes this past Saturday. Guillermo Novo Sampol, the founder of the Cuban Nationalist Movement, passed away at the age of 85 in Miami. As a young man, Sampol had a promising and lucrative career ahead of him as an engineer, but he gave that all up to dedicate himself completely to the cause of freedom in Cuba.
Via Diario de Cuba (my translation):
The active opponent of Castroism and founder of the Cuban Nationalist Movement (MNC), Guillermo Novo Sampol, passed away in Miami at the age of 85 on November 16, as reported on the social network X by Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, Secretary General of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC).
Although Novo Sampol could have had a successful professional life in the United States, where he graduated in Engineering, he dedicated his life to fighting against the regime established by Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1959. He was staunchly opposed to any concessions to Castroism.
Born in Cuba on June 8, 1939, Guillermo Novo Sampol emigrated to the United States with his family in the 1950s. In the same year that Fidel Castro overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista to establish his own, Guillermo and his brother Ignacio (also deceased) founded the Cuban Nationalist Movement in New York.
His funeral will be held today in Miami:
Alas, for every Cuban like this, there are too many others who don’t care or actually make things worse.