Havana, Cuba (CNN) Charlie Hill sits in a dark bar on a blindingly sunny Havana day.
"Hey
man," he says with a smoker's rasp and a nod that indicates he knows
you have been looking for him. But then a lot of people have been
looking for Charlie Hill for a long time.
For
43 years Cuba has provided refuge for Hill from facing charges that he
killed a New Mexico police officer and hijacked an airliner to Havana. Hill, now 65, decided to give CNN an interview after we'd spent two
years trying to reach him. He wants to discuss how for the first time he
is considering leaving his safe haven and returning to the United
States.
"I miss my country," he said, his voice cracking. "I miss my family. I
would like to go back and see where my grandparents were born, where I
was born, where I went to junior high. Eat some blackberry pie. Even go
to McDonald's. That's only natural."
Hill was a black power militant and said he is still a revolutionary.
But he craves the kind of French fries that only capitalism can make.
"Hey
man," he says with a smoker's rasp and a nod that indicates he knows
you have been looking for him. But then a lot of people have been
looking for Charlie Hill for a long time.
For
43 years Cuba has provided refuge for Hill from facing charges that he
killed a New Mexico police officer and hijacked an airliner to Havana. Hill, now 65, decided to give CNN an interview after we'd spent two
years trying to reach him. He wants to discuss how for the first time he
is considering leaving his safe haven and returning to the United
States.
"I miss my country," he said, his voice cracking. "I miss my family. I
would like to go back and see where my grandparents were born, where I
was born, where I went to junior high. Eat some blackberry pie. Even go
to McDonald's. That's only natural."
Hill was a black power militant and said he is still a revolutionary.
But he craves the kind of French fries that only capitalism can make.
