You decide you’ll donate tents but also give Myca money so the country can buy its own medical supplies from cheaper foreign sources.
Myca’s president thanks you for the assistance, and you are pleased to strengthen the U.S. relationship with this important trade partner.
But there are further problems: Mycan students are still protesting the canceled elections. And some local officials have been caught hoarding humanitarian aid supplies and selling them on the black market.
— Displaced mother of three in Camp 12I’m glad the United States didn’t forget about the tents. It might seem like a small thing, but when you have no proper roof over your head, a tent becomes your only protection against the weather.
— Mycan student protest leaderWe refuse to back down. There will never be real democracy in Myca until we have free and fair elections.
— The Oklahoma Daily letter to the editorI’m not saying don’t help the Mycans. But what I want to know is, can the United States afford all this?
