You contact the local chamber of commerce.

You stress that firing strikers violates international labor standards, which could cause the United States to impose trade sanctions on Myca. You tell them that protests not only hurt trade but also prevent the United States from providing essential humanitarian aid. For these reasons, you urge them to use their influence to persuade the president to hold elections. They meet with the president, but it does not go well.

Then Myca’s interior minister announces that flood water from the hurricane has flooded Myca’s largest graphite mine.

We had a cordial conversation with the president. Everyone wants what’s best for the country. We just don’t all agree on what that is.

— Statement from the Mycan chamber of commerce

That mine is my livelihood! How will I support my family now?

— Striking miner to local reporter

When did our chamber of commerce become a puppet of the Americans? Myca should decide its own destiny.

— State media outlet

Continue to Week 4

Chamber of commerce written on a brick wall