JCC: Mexican Cabinet
Joint Cabinet Crisis: Border Tensions
Mexican Cabinet
Please note: this is a special application committee. Applications will be due September 24.
Kidus Asfaw, Director
Class Year: 2013
Concentration: Engineering Sciences
Hometown: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Favorite Place: Giza, Egypt
Favorite Food: Apple Pie – it’s exotic for me.
Favorite MUN Moment: Sword-fight between Prussian leader of cabinet and Italian Representative
Why did you select this topic?: This topic helps delegates explore and have a deeper understanding of something they always hear about. How do we deal with Mexico’s current problems? What needs to change?
Tracy Vo, Crisis Director
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Committee Description
Convening in one of its worst droughts in decades, the Mexican government has painfully learned that the rainy season won’t be arriving as soon as they had hoped. The countryside is now in drought with water reservoirs reaching their lowest levels in decades. The coming year is looking grim as the wheat and corn crops are now wilting. Peasants who have been the most affected by the droughts are calling for help. Relocation projects are underway, but the fields to which thousands of Mexican citizens are being relocated are not fertile as their previous lands. Unrest is imminent.
Adding to these concerns, Mexico continues its drug war with Mexican drug cartels and their networks in the Southwestern United States. Corruption and inefficiency in government, a struggling economy, and a growing divide between rich and poor all oc- cupy the members of the Mexican governing council to which the Mexican public demands swift action. To make matters worse, a weary United States is convening to discuss illegal immigration, NAFTA, and a securitized border. How will this committee respond to such pressing issues and improve the Mexican economy, the lives of its citizens, and of its posterity?
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