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The United States’ senior diplomat in Cuba visited that nation’s Scottish Rite Supreme Council last week for discussion of possible cooperation in distributing humanitarian aid—and even some Masonic history, according to a March 18 post on the American embassy’s Facebook page.
Chargé d’Affaires Mike Hammer met Sovereign Grand Commander José Ramón Viñas, 33° that day. The social media post simply says:
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I’m sorry to say there is no more open source information on the meeting, nor do I know if Hammer is a Freemason. What I can say is the diplomat has been meeting with religious groups, independent newspapers, and others lately, as if Washington is looking beyond the communist regime for the island country’s future while that failed state forces its people to redefine poverty and misery. They no longer have simple electricity or fuel, prompting protests in the streets as a nationwide catastrophe looms. The United States already delivers humanitarian relief, as does Mexico.
The United States reopened an embassy in Havana in 2015, fifty-four years after full diplomatic relations were terminated following Cuba’s nationalization of billions of dollars of American-owned businesses. Hammer has been in his position since November 2024, serving on a temporary basis. He is a former ambassador to Chile whose personal life has taken him to Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, and Venezuela.
Washington’s view of Freemasonry in Cuba may be reflected in this State Department damning 2023 report on human rights abuses, which says: “Officially recognized churches, Freemasons, and several fraternal and professional organizations were permitted to function outside the formal structure of the state or the ruling party.”
Freemasonry in Cuba is hardly free of communist entanglement though. That’s a story I have avoided blogging about because it’s so obvious it would be like writing about the weather. Use your favorite search engine to learn of their grand lodge’s turmoil.
Meanwhile, in more recent days, America’s communist pig-dogs:
