Tournament: LAMDL | Round: 1 | Opponent: opp | Judge: judge
A) Link: The plan is justification for U.S. neoliberal domination of Latin America – U.S. security interests will always come before the needs of the people. Economic engagement is a mask for U.S. hegemony and exploitation of Latin America.
Jacobs ‘4 (Jamie Elizabeth, Assistant Prof of Polisci at West Virginia U, "Neoliberalism and Neopanamericanism: The View from Latin America," Latin American Politics and Society 46.4 (2004) 149-152, MUSE)
Neoliberal systems are unsustainable -environmental collapse and war make extinction inevitable
Shearman ‘7, (David , Emeritus professor of medicine at Adelaide University, Secretary of Doctors for the Environment Australia, and an Independent Assessor on the IPCC; and Joseph Wayne Smith, lawyer and philosopher with a research interest in environmentalism, 2007, The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy, p. 4-6)
Alternative: the judge should reject U.S. led initiatives in Latin America – this allows a bottom-up model of Latin American self-determination. Any perm will derail productive resistance of neoliberal exploitation.
Kaltwasser ‘11 (Cristóbal Rovira, Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, "Toward Post-Neoliberalism in Latin America?," Latin American Research Review Volume 46, Number 2, 2011, MUSE)