Aging U.S. fugitives live as exiles in Cuban neighborhoods

Hill is among 70 fugitives from American justice who live as ordinary citizens in Cuba, where the revolutionary government welcomed many as militants and political activists who faced persecution in the United States. Cuba’s government has refused almost all requests for their return but, in 2006, said “it would no longer provide safe haven to new U.S. fugitives entering Cuba,” according to the State Department.

Still, time, not the law, is catching up with the U.S. fugitives. One of the most notorious was Robert Vesco, an American businessman investigated in the 1970s for stealing more than $200 million from a Swiss mutual fund company. Rather than face charges, Vesco moved around Latin America before settling in Cuba in the 1980s.”*

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