Freemasons planted: They demand the departure of the Grand Master imposed by the regime

MADRID, Spain.- A group of more than a hundred Cuban Masons was planted this Tuesday at the building of the Grand Lodge of Cuba to denounce the interference of State Security and demand the departure of the Grand Master, Mario Urquía Carreño, who was imposed by the Cuban regime.

Urquía Carreño has been at the site since morning, while the Masons have entered the building and remain outside its door, on the eleventh floor. At the time of writing this note, Mario Urquía Carreño He refused to leave to dialogue with the Masons who will demand that he resign from his post.

The Masons gathered in the Grand Lodge denounce that the institution is illegitimate and, in a peaceful manner, have expressed their refusal to recognize Mario Urquía as Grand Master. “We need to restore the morality and order of the Grand Lodge of Cuba,” declared Iriel Hernández Cobreiro from the place, and proposed that brother Rubén be the spokesman of the Grand Lodge in the dialogue with the regime and Mario Urquía Carreño.

For his part, Evelio Núñez, from the Eureka lodge, explained to CubaNet From the protest site: “Cuban Freemasonry is making a very fair claim to everything that is happening and we consider Mr. Urquía Carreño to be a person with very low moral character to occupy the position of Grand Master and represent us and be our voice here or anywhere else in the world.” He also recalled that he was imposed by a state entity, so it is an “interference in the institution.”

On March 24, representatives of the country’s more than 300 lodges expelled Urquía, preventing him from opening and presiding over the semiannual session of the High Masonic Chamber, the legislative branch of the organization. The Masons based their decision on the “illegality” with which Urquía carried out his office, after having been expelled on January 25 by the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree for the Republic of Cuba, the body that directs the philosophical degrees from 4 to 33.

There is a Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Recognition between the Grand Lodge, which directs the symbolic degrees from 1 to 3, and the Supreme Council, by which if a Mason is sanctioned or expelled in one of these instances, the other party must abide by the same sanction.

However, in June, the Directorate of Associations of the Ministry of Justice of Cuba (MINJUS) invalid the expulsion of Mario Urquía Carreño from both the Supreme Council and the Grand Lodge of Cuba, ordering his reinstatement in the position from which he was removed by the Masons following the theft of $19,000 in his office at the beginning of January of this year.