Pros and cons of living in Ecuador

Ecuador is an amazing country, it is small but its combined location on the Equator line, the Andes mountains and the Amazon jungles provide some  unique characteristics. A hallucinating combination of snow-capes, high sierra, beaches, jungles and even Galápagos Islands, all of this combined with a great variety of vegetable and animal species is very rewarding for the visitor.
Ecuador is the home of at least 13 Indigenous peoples, all of them with its own culture, language and territory, aside with the white-mestizo and the Afro-Ecuadorean peoples. This gives Ecuador the characteristic of a multicultural and multilingual country. As you can deduct from this, in our country there are different cosmovisiones about what is and how to acquire the so called well living.
Immense natural resources like oil, minerals are present in the subsoil, but there is a difference of opinion about exploiting or not them, without harming mother nature and the habitat of no contacted tribes together with very sensible ecosystems.
Enough reasons to live in this beautiful country nevertheless I cannot think about negative aspects for living here. It is not that there are not negative aspects. A lot of fellow compatriots would mention aspects like, corruption, violence, poverty, unemployment; but if you consider, you will find these aspects in the majority of the countries around the world, and it is up to you if you decide to stay or not here.
In my opinion, something deeper is hurting my country. It has to deal with identity. This country has emerged over a base of oppression, racism and exploitation against indigenous population. So we have grown together in the same soul, but giving each others backs. I think the worst part of this conflict is taken by the mestizo people. They come from indigenous and white slopes. And they feel a lack of identity, and when it happens, development processes are delayed.
This conflict is latent and needs to be faced, we must find a way to become really intercultural. Respecting and even loving all different, peoples, a dialogue is needed in order to reach an agreement about the way of reach the well being of our country.
I don't see this problem as a con to live in Ecuador, it is just a challenge you are invited to face with us.