Western media is a funny thing.

In America, we only tend to focus on the things that affect us.

Even news teams that claim to provide information about news over international waters still bases most of its stories that surround events that happen in America.

So much goes on around the world that we should be aware of, but have no idea about.

For instance, if you haven’t heard by now, slavery has made its return in Libya.

On December 1st, 2017, a video recorded secretly by CNN showed a video of a man trying auction off a group of black men for $400. Trying to cross the border from Libya to Europe, Libyans have gotten trapped into camps and have been sold into slavery instead.

Except, this hasn’t only been happening recently. According to locals, this has been happening for years. Moussa Faki Mahamat, one of Africa’s Union official said that up to 700,000 Libyans have been stuck in Libya trying to escape, and have gotten in the cycle of being imprisoned into camps. In these camps they’re constantly abused, unfed, and sleep side to side on the cold concrete.

And America didn’t know anything about it until the end of 2017.

What nobody else seems to notice is the current political state of Honduras.

Statements from the police from their local police have been released saying that the government has asked them to use brute force on peaceful protesters on the streets. Telesurtv tells us that “the national police members refusal to use violence and coercion against the protestors wasn’t related ‘political ideas, or work demands, but simply due to our unconformity with what is happening.” Citizens of Honduras are revolting against Juan Orlando, the predicted winner of the election who tends to have more conservative views than his opponent, Salvador Nasralla.

Orlando recently made a change to the constitution which allowed him to run for another term, and the country has gone into an uproar.

From a source who wishes to have her name kept out the press, they save that people have been killed and left in the street for almost a week, and the police refuse to take action. Rebelling against their curfew, the people of Honduras continue to protest through the night. Families have boarded up their homes, to try and block out the sounds of consistent gunshots, shouting, and even the diffusing of bombs.

Protests have been going on since the start of ballot counting, and the death count has been slim, but Kimberly Dayana Forscena was only 19 years old when she lost her life in the middle of the current chaos,

So why didn’t we know?

Because if America loves anything anything more than their personal lives, it’s hearing about the personal lives about other people in America.

We have to do better. People around the world are in a constant continuum of pain and suffering, and we’ve been too stubborn to open our eyes to these type of situations.

So educate yourselves. See what we can do to help the people of Honduras in their time of suffering. Revolt against the treatment of people in Libya just like America did when we paraded the streets in November of 2016.

Right now, our best is not enough; but we can do better.