This last week I went to Washington, D.C. with my Model Organization of American States class. All semester we have been researching about Panama, the country we were assigned to represent. Finally, this last week, we were able to utilize all our research and hard work. 31 of the 32 countries in the OAS were represented by 19 universities from the US and the remaining from Latin America and the Caribbean. This included schools from Columbia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua, and the Bahamas. For those who don't really know how the model works, each country has a voice and a vote in the debate of resolutions. One resolution that my delegation worked on was concerning microfinance. We had to research our topic in order to be able to field topics from all the other delegations and at the same time we had to know Panama's position on topics as well as who their allies in the region in order to maintain diplomatic ties. Here is the link to the model website.
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