The Corrientes blunder

I´m in Corrientes, which is very nice but without hostel accommodation. I´m staying in a cheap hotel in a room which looks like it was painted to resemble a prison cell. There is a window with no shutter looking onto the glass door of the bathroom so I think people can see me shower, which pretty much completes the illusion. It´s as if they´re saying, Ýou´ve opted to stay in the cheapest room in Corrientes and we are not going to let you forget it.´
The place itself is very nice. Again with the faded colonial beauty which seems to characterise Argentina, but I´ve headed east and am no longer surrounded by desert - still hot though. Apparently this is one of Argentina´s oldest cities and a focal point for early battles between the native Indians and invading Spanish. Which reminds me, I never mentioned by the change in ethnicity is quite noticible from where people are quite light-skinned and European looking in Buenos Aires to north-west Argentina where they look a lot like the Peruvians of Cusco, like Native Americans. I know it doesn´t matter a jot, but it´s worth noting, and maybe indicates something about how little people migrate within the country, even though there is the reported BA-pull factor.
On the bus over I sat next to a female soldier (think that´s what she said). Soldiers can be seen patrolling the streets of most Argentinian towns and cities, though not in a threatening way. Anyway she was very nice and friendly and shared her food and blanket. I kept things platonic though, couldn´t help thinking one false move and I might have seen the inside of a real Argentinian cell.