I´ve had contact with Southern Cross too, through the CELTA courses they run. Southern Cross people are really stuck up because they only will hire British and Scotish people, but not Americans. The director of Southern Cross actually admitted to me once that only allow people to do the CELTA course who have a worldview that is similar to them, unfortunately that leaves a lot to be desired and there was a very anti-Christian atmosphere. Even militantly atheistic. With Canada House Center, who are based in Machala, Cuenca and Loja, I got embroiled in a lot of complications with respect to the VISA. Somebody in the Loja department, a low level person---but who takes care of the passports, decided they didn`t want me working there and started lying and eventually sabatoged my migration status just by procrastinating. Although upon hiring me they promised a one year VISA and told me exactly how it would be arranged, they don`t follow through on their commitments and don`t communicate directly about it. It left me in a lot of trouble with regard to the immigration status. When they found out that I had taken matters into my own hands in terms of arranging the legality to stay in Ecuador then they tried to sabatoge it. In my case I was based in Loja and I saw similar things happen with other teachers. Two Europeans girls actually left when it became clear they were playing games. Some teachers were striking when they wouldn`t get payed on time. It`s easy to go on.