Accountability in Latin America: Protests, Political Corruption, and Social Struggles Unveiled

In the past week across Latin America and the Caribbean, stark images have emerged revealing widespread social turmoil and political accountability crises that mainstream media often gloss over. From Bogota's Plaza Bolivar to Buenos Aires street protests, citizens confront governments failing their most vulnerable. Economic Desperation Amid Environmental Efforts Colombian recyclers—individuals who earn meager incomes by collecting and selling trash for recycling—blanketed Bogota’s central plaza with plastic bottles as a vivid protest against plummeting payments and harsher working conditions. This demonstration exposes deeper structural negligence: governments and companies profiting from recycling fail to provide fair compensation or adequate support for...