Yesterday, December 10, history was made. The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Florida restored Fraternal Relations with the Grand Lodge of Cuba and the First Grand Master of Cuba, Most Respectable Lazaro F. Cuesta Valdes, sat in a Masonic Lodge on Florida Soil in 56 years.GM Valdes (2015-18) attended the official visit of Florida's Grand Master Stanley L. Hudson to District 34 and 35 in Miami yesterday.
Despite waxing and waning political constraints, Cuba remains the sole Communist country that retains its own operating grand lodge. It was formed in 1951 from two previously separated ones, eight years before the Castro revolution, and the Gran Logia de Cuba has remained regular in practice.
