CASTRO IS BACK
Sonoran Border Force officials announced today that they would not arrest Fidel Castro, the convicted traitor who was exiled from Cuba in 1962, if he arrived in Pattonvilla to speak at a Mexican Constitutional Party rally. Chief Manuel Landbridge of the Border Force said that the officers were preoccupied with Union military activity near Tijuana and "could not be bothered to arrest a doddering, crazy old fire-eater."
Castro, 60, was exiled after a trial that convicted him of attempting to foment a slave uprising and for sedition in the form of Communist propaganda. At the invitation of President Kennedy of the United States, he became a citizen of that country and has reportedly lived in California ever since.
The Justice Section of the Executive Department has launched an investigation, and have promised that they will enforce the order, which banned Castro from ever setting foot on the soil of the Confederated States of America again.
The controversy is not the first to have embroiled the small, self-described "devoutly liberal" Mexican Consitutional Party, whose platform includes a provision for immediate emancipation. In the last Congressional elections, MCP lawyers were defeated in their attempt to make it easier for their candidates to make it onto the ballot throughout the Western and Central American states, but took four cases to the Supreme Courts of those states, achieving an order in Texas overturning the 1974 law that prohibited anti-slavery candidates from running for public office.
President Smith had no comment, but Plantation Party officials called for the elimination of the Mexican Constitutional Party as traitors and Unionist sympathizers, "through military force, if necessary."