Tournament: CSU Fullerton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vashon SZ | Judge: Sohin Gautam
====Economic engagement with Latin America fuels capitalist exploitation – the plan is used to make imperialist violence more efficient and invisible ====
Tumino Assistant Professor of English @ City University of New York, 02, (Stephen, author of Cultural Theory After the Contemporary, May/June 02, The Red Critique, "Contesting the Empire-al Imaginary: The Truth of Democracy as Class," http://redcritique.org/MayJune02/contestingtheempirealimaginary.htm-http://redcritique.org/MayJune02/contestingtheempirealimaginary.htm,Accessed 7/8/13, JC).
But freedom and democracy under capitalism is only for the few who can afford it
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imperialist brutality—it is appeasement of the violent democracy of the owners.
Increased economic engagement with Mexico empirically wreaks economic devastation and inequality. The Mexican elite have and will sell out the vast majority of the country in the name of US interest.
Regil, Executive Director of The Jus Semper Global Alliance, 2004 Álvaro J. de Regil, "The Neo-Capitalist Assault in Mexico: Democracy vis-à-vis the logic of the market" Sustainable Economic Development February 2004 http://www.jussemper.org/Resources/Economic20Data/Resources/Neo-capAssaultMexico.pdf-http://www.jussemper.org/Resources/Economic Data/Resources/Neo-capAssaultMexico.pdf
Structural Change Starting with Miguel de la Madrid, the PRI governments cease to be
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in decades. The GINI inequality index increases from 47 to 53. 10
Capitalism devalues human life and makes xtn inevitable.
Simonovic ’7(Ljubodrag Simonovic, Ph.D., Philosophy; M.A., Law; author of seven books, 2007, A New World is Possible, "Basis of contemporary critical theory of capitalism.") J.C.
The final stage of a mortal combat between mankind and capitalism is in progress.
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of the capitalist society, the withering away of life is taking place.
Johnston 04 (Adrian, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory, His published
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others’ belief in the socio-performative force emanating from this same material.