This week, on a very special episode of Viva Argentina..

Join Corinne and Jim has they put aside their usual merriment, and tackle the big issues. In this episode, Jim is forced to face the consequences after he is convicted of the felonious charge of butchering of Argentine spanish.

Settling into his new life in the 114-year-old Ushuaia prison is difficult. Since the town was founded as a penal colony lo those many years ago, the prison has housed the worst offenders in the country. To this day, they leave whole corridors untouched, so that the decay of the structures may match the decay of the souls housed within.

Adjusting was difficult for Jim. Escape was tempting, as the landscape opened itself to him fully. The harsh climate made a prison fence unnecessary, and the open access to the bay and Andes mocked him.

Life seemed hopeless, but then! What's this? He catches a fleeting glimpse of a new caseworker.

Compassionate and kind, Corinne was able to look beyond Jim's criminal history and see the man inside. A man who meant not to kill the Spanish language, but to LEARN it. And had SHE not ordered some type of red meat when she had meant to get fish? Had SHE not stared blankly at a tour guide when told she had won some type of lottery she did not know she had even entered??

He was no more guilty of homicide than she!


So they ran away together and lived on an island in Beagle Channel, never to return!

 

EDITOR'S NOTE: That prison was so freakin' creepy it made Alcatraz look like a country club.