Mexico Says Anti-Castro Terror Suspect Wasn't Legally in Country

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Mexico Says Anti-Castro Terror Suspect Wasn't Legally in Country, Vows to Hand Him Over to Venezuela

A longtime foe of Cuban President Fidel Castro apparently passed through Mexico illegally, but if the United States deports him to Mexico, this country would pass him on to Venezuela, officials said Wednesday. Luis Posada Carriles left no record of his reported passage from Mexico into the United States, indicating he was here illegally, but Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said that is a relatively minor offense and Mexico doesn't want him, even if he is deported here.

Derbez said the United States should hand Posada Carriles over to Venezuela, which wants to try the former CIA agent on charges of murder and treason for the 1976 bombing of a Cubana Airlines plane in which 73 people died. If the United States deports the man to Mexico, the government here would probably hand him over to Venezuela, the government news agency Notimex quoted Derbez as saying. "We would be practically obliged to do this, we have an (extradition) treaty with Venezuela," Derbez said.

"He would have to go to Venezuela because the Venezuelan case is very clear, there is a crime, which is compounded by his escape from prison," Derbez said.
Derbez said he was convinced Posada Carriles was a terrorist. "I would be prepared not just to affirm, but to state with all clarity, the man is a terrorist," Derbez said. On Wednesday, Mexican immigration commissioner Magdalena Carral delivered her report about Posada Carriles' movements to the Interior Department. Cuba had requested the report, after questioning how Posada could have passed through Mexico unnoticed. "Mr. Posada Carriles entered in an undocumented manner because if not, we would have it in our records," Carral said after testifying before Congress.

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1. The Mexican Government has added an additional problem

to the US's stance, this is gonna be interesting how it will be played

good news

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2. But he was OUR terrorist!

Those don't count, damnit!