I guess I am lucky to have lived my whole life and never had such a horrible experience... my ESL teaching days are over..... I will never get myself in a situation such as that again....

You state your ESL teaching days are over, yet in the same posting you call yourself a professional with a degree and many years of experience, and bemoan how shabbily they treated you.

You can/have read about how bad/dangerous Central and South America can be, so why even go there?

GL for the new yr
TL