Facing Problems

• While in life we have always been full of problems or complications, I considered myself a guy that can be resolve things in a good way. But many times happen to me situations a little bit strange as the common of the people in which my reaction was impression. 

For example, I remember once that I have traveled to Ecuador with a friend and during the road to go there; we came up cross the border in a taxi from Peru to Ecuador. Maybe because we were inexperienced and foreigners, we didn’t know that taxis were more dangerous than Chilean taxis and his drivers unless they were certified, they could be criminals disguised as drivers. 

And so it was, already was getting dark, we got inside to the taxi that a policeman recommended us in which always we suspected.  Once inside and on the road to Ecuador, of nowhere gets in another guy that start to intimidate us and ask for money. Obviously the problem was intense and of major stress, because we had never lived a similar situation. 

Then the taxi driver headed to a vacant parking and there arrived a third guy which threatened us with a gun so we hand over our money to him. After of a struggle of words we agreed to give him $200 dollars everyone, with the condition that crossed us the border. 
After a while, they did it but left us there, only that they crossed us to the bordering country in an illegal way. Thus we have to get some Chilean consulate to explain the situation and legalize our papers in the Ecuadorian customs. Later of long hours and already late-night we could solve the problem of the consulate, and the Chilean embassy called us so that they could accept us in Ecuador. 


Maybe was a terrible experience, we get out without money but at least with our lives intact. Our way to resolve the problem was basically calling to the embassy of our country and wait for a solution.