Institutional video confirmed former Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez was a Freemason

Former Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez was a Freemason. This was confirmed on Monday by the Grand Lodge of Freemasonry of Uruguay who, through a corporate video at a ceremony for his 165th birthday, revealed that the former president joined this organization.

In the pictures, the main figures of the Grand Lodge have been reviewed and included Vázquez, deceased in December 2020. It is important to note that Masonic rules state that a person’s membership in the group can only be revealed upon death.

The current head of state of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, attended the commemorative ceremony for the founding of the Uruguayan Masonry on July 17, 1856 (one year before the birth of the Grand Lodge of Argentina), and received a plaque and a pen.

As reported by the local newspaper The country, the event was led by the grand master, Jose garchitorena, who is also Minister of the Electoral Court. He called for “preventing polarization, which in many cases stems from indignation and powerlessness, from undermining the shared experience of citizenship and calling into question the bases of legitimization of the democratic system. In short, attacking coexistence and the democratic spirit”.

“Present since colonial times, many Freemasons were protagonists of the independence process, contributed to the establishment and construction of the Republic and contributed to the formation of nationality.“Garchitorena pointed out in his speech.

The same newspaper recalled that several former Uruguayan presidents were Freemasons and that on Monday it became official that the first Uruguayan left leader belonged to the Grand Lodge.

As collected The country, Garchitorena claimed that they watch with “concerns how postmodernity reframes the debates we had for, questioning the meaning, scope and importance of concepts such as individual freedom, tolerance, freedom to think and express oneself, democracy, secularism and the sense of community ”.

He added that these questions “In many cases, out of contempt for reason and the rational mind, they drift into propositions that bring us back to pre-modernity”.

Finally, he underlined: “Those of us who believe in freedom as the cornerstone of existence, in equality as a condition for the integral development of persons and in fraternity as a condition for coexistence, we must participate and contribute to the debates of today’s globalized society”.

In the video in question, there are portraits of several of the personalities who made up the lodge in Uruguay and who died: Gabriel Pérez, founder, Manuel Oribe, José Garibaldi, Gabriel Pereira, Atanasio Aguirre, Teodoro Vilardebó, Adolfo Vaillant, José Brito del Pino, Leandro Gómez, Carlos de Castro, Eduardo Acevedo, Pedro Figari and Juan Manuel Blanes, Justino Jiménez de Aréchaga and Elbio Fernández, Francisco Vidiella and Francisco Piria, Ricardo J. Areco and Julio Bastos, Florencio Sánchez and Francisco Canaro, Feliciano Viera, Alfredo Vázquez Acevedo, Joaquín R. Sánchez, Abel J. Pérez, Ángel Luisi and their daughters: Paulina, Inés, Luisa and Clotilde, Juan Ángel Golfarini and Atilio Narancio, Ledo Arroyo Torres and Tomás Berreta, Aldo Ciasquapace and José M. Pucci and Antonio M. Grompone, José F. Arias, Enrique Rodríguez Fabregat, Samuel Bertón and Julio Vilamajó, Edmundo Pratti and José María Fernández Saldaña, Saúl D. Cestau, César Mayo Gutiérrez, Luis Franzini, Luis Trócolli, Julio C. ré Rosa, Francisco “Paco” Espínola, Amílcar Vasconcellos and Erasmo Silva Cabrera (Avlis), Tabaré Vázquez and Carlos Maggi, Rodolfo González Rissotto and Mario Dotta Ostria.

According to Montevideo Portal, the event, which took place at the Masonic Palace, brought together, in addition to Lacalle Pou, the interior ministers, Luis Alberto Heber; Education and Culture, Pablo Da Silveira; Tourism, German Cardoso; and Chancellor Francisco Bustillo. The court’s prosecutor, Jorge Díaz, was also present.

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