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1ACTournament: Iowa Caucus | Round: 1 | Opponent: na | Judge: na InherencyUS maintains an embargo that bars nearly all economic activity with CubaGuzmán, Emmy award winning journalist, 2013 Five decades of failed policy later, our nation is being held hostage. The 1AC—Plan Text-HBThe United States federal government should lift the Cuban embargo. Adv 1—Soft Poweranti-americanism is growing in latin america – extending an olive branch to cuba is necessary to re-establish regional soft powerPerez JD Yale Law School 2010 David "America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department" Harvard Latino Law Review lexis This cooperation and influence is key to solve amazon deforestation and warming, and curb terrorist proliferationIAD 12 (Inter-American Dialogue Policy Report, 2012) (IAD is a think tank hosting 100 leaders and experts from the US and Latin America, "Remaking the Relationship: The United States and Latin America," April, Online: http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf-http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf) Amazon defo leads to extinctionCimilte ’09 (Matthew. Janurary 9, 2009 "Amazon Deforestation Earth’s Hear and Lungs Dismembered" http://www.livescience.com/3201-amazon -earth-heart-lungs-dismembered.html) Warming is real-newest consensus is 100, can be stopped with international cooperation, reverse causal—sea levels will rise 5 feet if not stopped by 2100 Now is the key time-slowing warming is key to avoid positive feedbacksJames E. Hanson, Head, NASA Goddard Institute, Testimony before House Select Committee on Energy Independnece and Global Warming, 6—23—08, www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TwentyYearsLater_20080623.pdf Fast feedbacks—changes that occur quickly in response to temperature change—amplify the Oxygen CollapseBrandenburg 26 Paxson 2K Increase proliferation in Latin America results in WMD terrorismAnderson, 08 (10/8/2008, Curt, AP, "US officials fear terrorist links with drug lords," http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-08-805146709_x.htm-http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-08-805146709_x.htm) MIAMI — There is real danger that Islamic extremist groups such as al-Qaida and Hezbollah could form alliances with wealthy and powerful Latin American drug lords to launch new terrorist attacks, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Nuclear terrorism means extinctionALEXANDER (Dir. Inter-University Center for Terrorism) 2000
SolvesA) Signal of anti-AmericanismWhite 13 Throughout his career, the autocratic Mr. Chávez used our embargo as a wedge C) brings us into line with the regionMcKenna and Kirk ’09 (Peter McKenna and John M. Kirk are the co-authors of the recently released book, Fighting Words: Competing Voices from Revolutionary Cuba, April 17, 2009, "U.S.-Cuba relations ripe for change; If Washington wants to revitalize its role in the Americas, it must repeal Cuban embargo" from the Toronto Star, Accessed 7/17/2013 on Lexis Nexis) adv 2—ChinaUniqueness: China influence is up and US engagement is down – recent trips pale in comparison to policy.Martinez ’13 (Guillermo I., Columnist, "America losing influence throughout Latin America" May 23, 2013, The Sun Sentinel, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-05-23/news/fl-gmcol-oped0523-20130523_1_drug-cartels-latin-america-pri-http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-05-23/news/fl-gmcol-oped0523-20130523_1_drug-cartels-latin-america-pri)-mikee Once upon a time, as many fairy tales start, the United States was us influence in Latin America is key to prevent Chinese crowd in – first impact is cyber warPerez JD Yale Law School 2010 David "America’s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department" Harvard Latino Law Review lexis cyber-attack would destroys the US economyVatis, 2000 (Michael, FBI, Congressional Testimony to the Subcommittee on Crime in the House and the Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight, Federal News Service, 2/29, l/n) The perception of US economic collapse is immediate and causes warLieberthal and O’Hanlon ’12 And while us economic downturn leads to war, Us economic security checks back for global conflictRoyal 10 (Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction – U.S. Department of Defense, "Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises", Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215) Second Impact: Taiwan-China’s diplomatic battle in Latin America hurts US soft power and military superiority in the straight.Erikson 26 Chen, ’7 (Daniel is a Senior Associate of US Policy at the Inter-American Dialogue. Janice is a degree candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. "China, Taiwan, and the Battle for Latin America," Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 31:2, Summer 2007, pg. 71) The United States has been reflexively wary of any potential Chinese incursions into a region Taiwan goes nuclearHunkovic 9 – American Military University (Lee J., "The Chinese-Taiwanese Conflict: Possible Futures of a Confrontation between China, Taiwan and the United States of America," http://www.lamp-method.org/eCommons/Hunkovic.pdf) A war between China, Taiwan and the United States has the potential to escalate SolvesA) China’s expansion is driven by lack of US engagementJohnson 5 B) And the signal of the plan is keyEllis ’11 Adv 3—SpillsOffshore oil drilling is inevitable in Cuba – lifting the embargo is key to prevent and contain spillsForbes 12/12/2011 "U.S. Should Drop Cuba Embargo For Oil Exploration" http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2011/12/12/u-s-should-drop-cuba-embargo-for-oil-exploration/ US expertise is key to prevent an oil spillZakaria PhD in Political Science 2011 Fareed "Why our Cuba embargo could lead to another Gulf oil disaster" CNN World 9/19 http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/19/why-our-cuba-policy-could-lead-to-another-gulf-oil-spill/ The embargo limits and delays US response to spills – the plan is necessary for sustained involvement in safety and regulations across the regionTampa Bay Times 10/18/2011 "Oil spill from drilling in Cuban waters could have limited U.S. response" http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/water/oil-spill-from-drilling-in-cuban-waters-could-have-limited-us-response/1197425 Cuban oil spills collapse Floridian ecosystems – the plan prevents and mitigates the impact to spillsStephens and Colvin 11 (Sarah – Executive Director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas, and Jake – Vice President for Global Trade Issues at the National Foreign Trade Council, "US-Cuba policy, and the race for oil drilling", 9/29, http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/184661-us-cuba-policy-and-the-race-for-oil-drilling) Florida is a unique biodiversity hotspotAlles 7 (David L. Professor of Biology – Western Washington University, "Biodiversity Hot Spots: The Florida Everglades", 3-7-2007, http://www.biol.wwu.edu/trent/alles/Everglades.pdf-http://www.biol.wwu.edu/trent/alles/Everglades.pdf) Biod checks extinction. Solves ecosystems and checks next pathogenMittermeier ’11 Extinction is the gravest consequence of the biodiversity crisis, since it is¶ irreversible | 10/23/13 |
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