The sovereign Great Commander Viñas Alonso is accused of changing $ 100, in what Masons denounce as a political retaliation.
Madrid, Spain.- The Sovereign Great Commander of the Supreme Council of Grade 33 in Cuba, José Ramón Viñas Alonso, faces a criminal process under the accusation of changing currency in the informal market; which constitutes a political maneuver to dismantle leaders within the organization.
The accusation is based on the testimony of an alleged anonymous informant that would have told the authorities that Viñas changed dollars in the informal market, without so far a single concrete evidence has been presented. The measure shows the growing interference of state security in the internal affairs of Freemasonry, in a repressive act. “The forms are no longer careful,” says Camila Acosta in conversation with the Mason Sergio Richard Vidal in your space for Cubanet-: They accuse you without evidence, they set up the theater in a momentary, and you are going imprisoned because they feel like it. Currency traffic for $ 100? It is simply incredible. ”
The formal accusation points to an alleged currency change operation for the equivalent of 100 dollars, aimed at covering operational needs of the Masonic asylum of Llansó, a philanthropic institution that provides attention to older people in vulnerable situations. Sergio Richard Vidal explains that in any way these funds would have been used in a collegiate manner and with approval of the Board of Trustees, to maintain the essential services of the installation, including food, hygiene and decent accommodation for resident elders.
Llansó’s asylum is probably the only one in Cuba that guarantees breakfast, snack, lunch, food, bed, and dignity care for its inmates, as Camila Acosta explained.
This Monday, the Masonic writer Ángel Santiesteban Prats had confirmed on his social networks that Both Viñas Alonso and the great Master of the GLC, Juan Alberto Kessel Linares, are being subject to criminal proceedings. Both were summoned by the security of the State in different police stations: Kessel in the Picota and Viñas Unit in the coast and October ten.
Several members of Cuban Freemasonry consider that these judicial actions respond to an attempt by the Government to neutralize the critical sectors within the order, especially after weeks of internal tensions between lodges that reject what they qualify as interference of the Ministry of Justice and State Security in their structures.
