Tournament: Lex | Round: 1 | Opponent: People | Judge: Person
Plan: The United States federal government should provide technical cooperation over the transfer of United States owned physical assets in the Republic of Cuba.
Torture Narrative-
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?_r=2and
Closing Guantanamo is the first step toward a legal reformulation of US policy on torture
SABY GHOSHRAY, Ph.d, Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Florida International University, Vice President for Development and Compliance at WorldCompliance Company, He is the author of over 60 scholarly articles published in journals, books and conference proceedings, and continues his research on diverse subsets of international law, interface between domestic jurisprudence and international law, juvenile criminal law, military tribunals, and constitutional law, He has been writing and lecturing on the judicial treatment of Guantanamo detainees since his legal workshop presentation at the 17th International Conference of the Society for the Reform of Criminal Law at The Hague in 2003, Spring 2011, 57 Wayne L. Rev. 163 – GUANTÁNAMO: UNDERSTANDING THE NARRATIVE OF DEHUMANIZATION THROUGH THE LENS OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND DUALITY OF 9/11, http://www.scribd.com/doc/119301170/57-Wayne-L-Rev-163-Guantanamo-Understanding-the-Narrative-of-Dehumanization-Through-the-Lens-of-American-Exceptionalism-Saby-Ghoshray
Returning Guantanamo is a prerequisite to challenging American imperialism in Latin America
Phineas Rueckert, June 4, 2013 Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs “Guantánamo Bay: Closing the GTMO Detention Center is a Wilting Olive Branch to Cuba and the Rest of Latin America” http://www.coha.org/guantanamo-bay-closing-the-gtmo-detention-center-is-a-wilting-olive-branch-to-cuba-and-the-rest-of-latin-america/,TS)
Guantanamo bay justifies US exceptionalism and imperialism which naturalizes and reproduces endless violence and racism
Mariela Cuadro, PhD in International Relations from Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Licensed in Sociology at Universidad de Buenos Aires, coordinator and investigator for the Middle East department of the Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales (Institute of International Relations), 2011, “Universalisation of liberal democracy, American exceptionalism and¶ racism,” http://www2.hu-berlin.de/transcience/Vol2_Issue2_2011_30_43.pdf
American exceptionalism justifies extermination of the other
Mariela Cuadro, PhD in International Relations from Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Licensed in Sociology at Universidad de Buenos Aires, coordinator and investigator for the Middle East department of the Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales (Institute of International Relations), 2011, “Universalisation of liberal democracy, American exceptionalism and¶ racism,” http://www2.hu-berlin.de/transcience/Vol2_Issue2_2011_30_43.pdf
Guantanamo is the root of modern militarism – it’s the base of media racism in the context of the War on Drugs and War on Terror
Braziel 6 (Jana Evans, Assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Cincinnati, Haiti, Guantánamo, and the "One Indispensable Nation" U.S. Imperialism, "Apparent States," and Postcolonial Problematics of Sovereignty, Cultural Critique 64, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cultural_critique/v064/64.1braziel.html//TS)
Attempts to maintain American superiority and security are symptomatic of paranoia manifesting itself throughout politics – the inevitable result of which is flashpoint imperial violence
McClintock 09
(Anne McClintock is a writer, feminist scholar and public intellectual who has published widely on issues of sexuality, race, imperialism, and nationalism; popular and visual culture, photography, advertising and cultural theory “Paranoid Empire: Specters from Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib” March 2009, p. 53 Accessed via Project MUSE, TS)
Imperialist domination leads to loss of value to life – that outweighs
Perez 8 (Pepito Perez published Semptember 2008 “A short essay on the overall negative consequences of 19th century European imperialism.” http://www.scribd.com/doc/6289110/The-Consequences-of-Imperialism
ROB is who advocates the best for ethical policy action towards Latin America