You send U.S. diplomats to meet with pro-democracy groups.
The diplomats express support for the groups’ shared goal of a more democratic Myca and urge that all protests stay peaceful. Peaceful protests will earn them international respect. A nonviolent atmosphere will also make it easier to deliver humanitarian aid to the country. The groups promise not to provoke the police at the demonstration.
The next day, they protest peacefully. Thankfully, the police respect the demonstrators’ civil rights.
Then the Mycan Ministry of Health announces that the deadly disease cholera has broken out. It is spreading in the displacement camps set up for people who lost their homes in the hurricane.
— Mycan member of ParliamentThe United States chose to side with delinquents and agitators. I doubt our bilateral relationship will recover from this betrayal.
— Mycan opposition leaderThese protests were peaceful, but who can say what the future will bring if we still don’t get our elections?
— Myca’s presidentThe cholera outbreak just shows I was right to cancel elections. We must deal with the humanitarian crisis. That’s still my priority.
