Tournament: heres our 1ac | Round: Finals | Opponent: na | Judge: na
Observation 1: Inherency
Current Merida Initiative funding is too focused on security and strategies of force; this comes at the expense of rights focused community building, letting drug violence run rampant
Seelke and Finklea, 2013 (Clare Ribando, Specialist in Latin American Affairs, Kristin M., Analyst in Domestic Security “U.S.-Mexican Security Cooperation: The Mérida Initiative and Beyond” June 12, 2013 in the Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41349.pdf.
Status quo aid is ineffective due to a lack of accountability by the Nieto regime
Bustillo and Dudley , 2013 (Camilo Perez, Research Professor of the Graduate Programme in Human Rights and the Faculty of Law, Autonomous University of Mexico City, and Steven, Co-director of Insight Crime “Inside Story Americas : Is Mexico's war on drugs close to a real end soon? Transcribed from Al Jazeera English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pDrDJS0T2s
Observation Two: Violence
The trauma of those exposed to ongoing acts of violence in Mexico is being masked and distorted as the Nieto regime continues to manipulate the image of living conditions on the ground
Kawamura, 2013
Julie, translator Translation of Javier Sicilia, “Mexican Activist Javier Sicilia Declares "Calderón's War Continues and Is Worsening with Peña Nieto,” july 3, 2013 Original Translation posted in Aristegui Noticias, Mexico Voices, http://mexicovoices.blogspot.com/2013/07/mexican-activist-javier-sicilia.html
Not only is the Mexican government complicit in this violence, but exist as active participants in its continuation; U.S. pressure is key
Bustillo and Dudley , 2013 (Camilo Perez, Research Professor of the Graduate Programme in Human Rights and the Faculty of Law, Autonomous University of Mexico City, and Steven, Co-director of Insight Crime “Inside Story Americas : Is Mexico's war on drugs close to a real end soon? Transcribed from Al Jazeera English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pDrDJS0T2s
The larger political frame obscures ongoing murder, kidnapping, and extortion on the streets of Mexico –These do not fit neatly within conventional temporal frames that have been placed in the context of the current failing drug war strategy, causing millions to suffer in silence
Nixon 10 (Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pp 1-14)
A focus on this structural violence must come first – anything else renders its effect invisible
Biyanwila 8—University of Western Australia (Janaka, Re-empowering labour : Knowledge, ontology and counter-hegemony, http://www.tasa.org.au/uploads/2011/05/Biyanwila-Janaka-Session-59-PDF.pdf)
Structural violence has always been set aside in favor of focusing on subjective flashpoint instances of violence – this creates a stop-gap in thought which makes it impossible to address the root cause of all violence – voting affirmative in the face of crisis is necessary to resist the violence we outline in the 1AC
Zizek 2008 Slavoj Violence p 1-4
Plan
Thus the plan: The United States Federal Government should increase its funding for social programs outlined by the Merida Initiative in Mexico on the condition that Mexico accepts a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Solvency
TRC’s don’t produce objective truth, they produce narrative truth that has conciliatory power and foster participation and agency
Chanbonpin, 2011
Kim D. Chanbonpin, Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, “We Don't Want Dollars, Just Change":1Narrative Counter-Terrorism Strategy, an Inclusive Model for Social Healing, and the Truth About Torture Commission,” Winter 2011 Edition, http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v6/n1/1/index.html
This creates the condition of possibility to move toward integrating experiences- It opens up space for political humanity and a transition to a new politics while healing survivors internally
McAfee, 2008 Noelle, Associate Research Professor of Philosophy and Conflict Analysis at George Mason, Democracy and the Political Unconscious, 2008
A process of Acknowledgement, Contrition, and Forgiveness is necessary to expose, treat, and heal systemic conflict-anything less cannot break through the status quo barrier of latent and manifest violence
Lerche III, 1999’ (Charles, Director in the School of Graduate Studies, Norwich University “TRUTH COMMISSIONS AND NATIONAL RECONCILIATION” 1999 http://www.gmu.edu/programs/icar/pcs/LERCHE71PCS.html
Mexico will say yes to the condition- US support is critical and Nieto won’t leave it up to chance
Jacobson 13– (Assistant Secretary Of State For Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta S, “State’s Jacobson at Senate Hearing on U.S.-Mexico Partnership,” 6/18/13, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Before Foreign Relations Committee Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2013/06/20130618276661.html#axzz2XAL8c3nZ)
Necessity trumps and outweighs ideology- Mexico needs US support on drug war
Examiner.com 10 (“Mexico reviews new solutions to the drug problem, needs U.S. support” http://www.examiner.com/article/mexico-reviews-new-solutions-to-the-drug-problem-needs-u-s-support, Headquartered in Denver, CO, Examiner.com is guided by an executive team comprised of veterans of numerous start-ups, established media outlets and online leaders including Gannett, Disney, AOL, Yahoo! among others.)
Prioritizing everyday violence is key- responding to it later causes error replication and movement burn out, only re-orienting focus away from macro-level violence produces sustainable political coalitions
Cuomo ’96
(Chris, Prof. of Political Science @ U of Cincinnati, “War is not just an event: reflections on the significance of everyday violence”, Hypatia, vol. 11, no. 4 Fall (1994))
Critical approaches are infinitely regressive, will always fail, and turns themselves - multiple warrants
-theoretical isolationism
-absence of materiality
-ignorance of past failures
-lack of pragmatism
-zero motivation for action
Bryant 12 (Levi Bryant, professor of philosophy at Collin College, “Underpants Gnomes: A Critique of the Academic Left,” 11/11/2012, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/)