I watched an
episode of Locked Up Abroad. It was about a British woman caught in
Buenos Aires with a suitcase full of cocaine. She was given bail and even put
in a youth hostel. For some reason the police came to take her back to jail. She
escaped without a passport and took local buses up to the border with Brasil.
She swam to Brasil and made a report of a lost passport. She got an emergency
passport at the British consulate in Sao Paulo. She made it back to England and thought that she was home free. Two years later she was arrested on an
international warrant from Argentina. England considered the extradition until
early 2012 and then rejected the request for the lady’s return to Argentina. I
suspect that the rejection of the extradition request had something to do with
the fight between Argentina and England over the Falkland Islands. This young
lady had incredible good luck. But she is stuck in England for the rest of her
life. If she went to some other country she would be sent back to Argentina and
sent to prison for sixteen years. If she did not have a lot of money for bribes
her jail time would be very unpleasant.
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