Tournament: New York City Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Atholton HD | Judge: Brian Manuel
CP TEXT: The United States federal government ought to offer to significantly expand its economic ties with Mexico if, and only if, the government of Mexico instates re-election procedures within the Mexican federal government, establishes and enforces term limits, strengthens the independent electoral system, standardizes electoral practices at state and local levels, and implement an improved law enforcement system to prevent electoral, police and judicial fraud and coercion.
Conditioning economic ties on election and law reform solves the case and eliminates political corruption in Mexico.
Alex Velez-Green et al, 10-19-2012, writer for the Harvard Political Review, author for the Harvard Institute of Politics National Security Student Policy Group, Robin Reyes, graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in International Business and International Studies, organized the 2011 Emprende tu México summit on creating a climate for investment and entrepreneurship in Mexico, Master’s in the field of Government from Harvard University, studied at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government, Anthony Ramicone, Institute of Politics @ Harvard University, “Governmental, Judicial and Police Corruption,” http://www.iop.harvard.edu/sites/default/files_new/research-policy-papers/TheWarOnMexicanCartels.pdf
One way to reduce political corruption is to instate reelection
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require much less bureaucracy and will produce more direct results.
Election reform is key to solve corruption – inaction collapses Mexican democracy.
NYT, 6-24-2009, the New York Times, American daily newspaper, has won 112 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization, “Crime Threatens Democracy, Mexico’s President Warns,” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/world/americas/25mexico.html
President Felipe Calderón said Wednesday that the future of democracy
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list suggesting possible links between the police and organized crime.
Mexican democracy collapse kills global democracy – effective transition causes modeling.
Shannon K. O’Neal, 4-29-2013, a senior fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan foreign-policy think tank and membership organization, “Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead,” http://mexidata.info/id3609.html
Diplomatically, we also need to rethink the United States' approach
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game-changing importance of political choices being made just next door.
Democracy solves extinction.
Larry Diamond, 1995, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, December 1995, Promoting Democracy in the 1990s, http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/di/1.htm
OTHER THREATS This hardly exhausts the lists of threats to
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world order of international security and prosperity can be built.