Tournament: USC | Round: 1 | Opponent: St Vincent de Paul GJ | Judge: Stephen Goldberg

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A. Interpretation – Removing sanctions is a form of appeasement

Stern 6 (Martin, University of Maryland Graduate, Debunking detente, 11/27/06, http://www.diamondbackonline.com/article_56223e79-7009-56a3-8afe-5d08bfff6e08.html)

Appeasement is defined as "granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace." Giving Iran international legitimacy and removing sanctions would have maintained peace with a potential enemy without changing the undemocratic practices of the enemy. If this isn’t appeasement, I don’t know how better to define the word.

Engagement and appeasement are distinct

Resnick 1 (Evan, Assistant Professor and coordinator of the United States Programme at RSIS, "Defining Engagement," Journal of International Affairs, 0022197X, Spring2001, Vol. 54, Issue 2, http://web.ebscohost.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/ehost/detail?sid=1b56e6b4-ade2-4052-9114-7d107fdbd01940sessionmgr1226vid=226hid=2426bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ3d3d~~23db=mth26AN=4437301-http://web.ebscohost.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/ehost/detail?sid=1b56e6b4-ade2-4052-9114-7d107fdbd01940sessionmgr1226vid=226hid=2426bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ3d3d)

Thus, a rigid conceptual distinction can be drawn between engagement and appeasement. Whereas
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or in exchange for certain concessions on the part of the target state.

B. Violation – they remove restrictions – that’s appeasement

C. Voting issue

1. Limits – infinite amount of restrictions the aff can remove – explodes neg research burden

2. Ground – Lose spending links based off of increases in funding

Extra-T – stick to the plan – no reason to vote for the team other than plan-action

Put standards here prashant

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Calls upon the state are used to legitimize capitalism by remedying disorganization and depoliticizing action that exploits the poor. This turns case.
Hall, prof @ University College London, 89, Peter Hall Prof. Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University College London. 1989. Cities of Tomorrow. Pgs. 335-341

At the same time, a specifically Marxian view of planning emerged in the English
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been to depoliticize planning as an activity, and thus to legitimate it. 

Capitalism causes an irrational hystericization of self-preservation, causing ecological catastrophe, famine, disease, war, and finally extinction.
Deborah Cook, Professor of Philosophy, University of Windsor, 2006, "Staying Alive: Adorno and Habermas on Self-Preservation Under Late Capitalism."

In the passage in Negative Dialectics where he warns against self-preservation gone wild
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destroying not just the entire species, but all life on the planet.

Alternative text – vote negative to reject capitalism. Rejection of global capital is the starting point for change
Holloway, 02 (John, Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Edinburgh, Social Science Professor at Univ. of Puebla, "Change the World Without Taking Power," http://libcom.org/library/change-world-without-taking-power-john-holloway-http://libcom.org/library/change-world-without-taking-power-john-holloway) 

In the beginning is the scream. We scream. When we write or when
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we feel to be negative. This is what we must cling to. 

CP

Counterplan: The United States Federal Government should selectively loosen trade restrictions on Cuba.

====1.Targeted sanctions solve human rights violations effectively by focusing pressure on the Castro government to reform====
Alexander 3 (Brian, CEO of the Cuba Policy Foundation, works with Congress to create US policy, "TARGETING CASTRO, NOT CUBA: CONSIDERING A SMART SANCTIONS APPROACH TOWARD CUBA," ASCE 2003, http://www.ascecuba.org/publications/proceedings/volume13/pdfs/alexander.pdf)**
One possible option is a policy of "smart sanctions." Smart sanctions or "
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and they do not necessarily exclude application of other approaches for addressing Cuba.

====2. Targeted sanctions minimize collateral damage while maximizing pressure on the ruling elite to reform —- financial sanctions prove====
Shagabutdinova and Berejikian 7 (Ella, Consultant at The World Bank, University of Georgia School of Law, and Jeffrey, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia, and Associate Professor in the Department of International Affairs, "Deploying Sanctions while Protecting Human Rights: Are Humanitarian "Smart" Sanctions Effective?," Journal of Human Rights 6:59-74, 2007, https://www.ucdc.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/Academic/Courses/V12SB/smartsanctions.pdf)**
Smart Sanctions Critics of traditional sanctions have thus argued that sanctions tend to disproportionately damage
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the greatest potential to constitute both an effective and humane alternative to war.

Targeted sanctions encourage democratic change —- proven by lifting Internet sanctions.

Fletcher 10 (Pascal, Bureau Chief at Reuters, "Smart sanctions can support democratic change: U.S.," Reuters, 3-15-10, http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/03/15/us-usa-sanctions-democracy-idUSTRE62E34K20100315)**
(Reuters) - Adjusting and even selectively loosening U.S. sanctions against
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enforcement more effective by clearly focusing and targeting its actions on major violators.

====CP garners international approval.====
Alexander 3 (Brian, CEO of the Cuba Policy Foundation, works with Congress to create US policy, "TARGETING CASTRO, NOT CUBA: CONSIDERING A SMART SANCTIONS APPROACH TOWARD CUBA," ASCE 2003, http://www.ascecuba.org/publications/proceedings/volume13/pdfs/alexander.pdf)**
An additional consideration raising the promise of success in a smart sanctions policy is that
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behind a multilateral measure has a positive value that should not be overlooked.

====CP has a symbolic and deterrent value. ====
Alexander 3 (Brian, CEO of the Cuba Policy Foundation, works with Congress to create US policy, "TARGETING CASTRO, NOT CUBA: CONSIDERING A SMART SANCTIONS APPROACH TOWARD CUBA," ASCE 2003, http://www.ascecuba.org/publications/proceedings/volume13/pdfs/alexander.pdf)**
Other factors to consider in measuring the success of smart sanctions policies are the symbolic
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is credible reason to believe that they may be subject to targeted sanctions.

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Raul would resist dramatic change—the US needs to engage gradually to ensure future breakthroughs—their author

Colvin, 08 (Jake, fellow with the New Ideas Fund, a group that seeks new approaches and paradigms for U.S. national security and foreign policy. He is also Vice President for Global Trade Issues at the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) and oversees the Cuba initiative of USA*Engage, "The Case for a New Cuba Policy", 12/23/2008, http://web.archive.org/web/20120904201743/http://www.newideasfund.org/proposals/Colvin20-20Cuba20-20Master.pdf)**

It can be frustrating.?96 Given the checkered history of U.S.-
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regular channels of communication will make gradual improvement more likely down the road.

Arguments that lifting the embargo would help Cuba are founded on false assumptions—Cuba either won’t let us in or will direct the funds it gets to only supporting the government

Suchlicki Jun-00 ("The U.S. Embargo of Cuba," JAIME SUCHLICKI is Emilio Bacardi Moreau Professor of History ¶ and International Studies and the Director of the Institute for Cuban ¶ and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami. He was the ¶ founding Executive Director of the North-South Center. For the past ¶ decade he was also the editor of the prestigious Journal of ¶ Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, http://www6.miami.edu/iccas/USEmbargo.pdf-http://www6.miami.edu/iccas/USEmbargo.pdf)

Opponents of U.S. policy toward Cuba claim that if the embargo and
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do not like capitalism and ¶ we will not abandon our Socialist system."

Even if Cuba cooperates, lifting the embargo will result in Cuba taking tight control over any aid we offer them—that strengthens the regime and makes Cuba more oppressive and less democratic

Suchlicki Jun-00 ("The U.S. Embargo of Cuba," JAIME SUCHLICKI is Emilio Bacardi Moreau Professor of History ¶ and International Studies and the Director of the Institute for Cuban ¶ and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami. He was the ¶ founding Executive Director of the North-South Center. For the past ¶ decade he was also the editor of the prestigious Journal of ¶ Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, http://www6.miami.edu/iccas/USEmbargo.pdf-http://www6.miami.edu/iccas/USEmbargo.pdf)

A change in U.S. policy toward Cuba may have different and ¶ unintended results. The lifting of the embargo and the travel ban without ¶ meaningful changes in Cuba will:
- Guarantee the continuation of the current totalitarian structures.
- Strengthen state enterprises, since money will flow into businesses ¶ owned by the Cuban government. Most businesses are owned in ¶ Cuba by the state and, in all foreign investments, the Cuban ¶ government retains a partnership interest.
- Lead to greater repression and control since Castro and the ¶ leadership will fear that U.S. influence will subvert the revolution ¶ and weaken the Communist party’s hold on the Cuban people.
- Delay instead of accelerate a transition to democracy on the island.
- Allow Castro to borrow from international organizations such as ¶ the IMF, the
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abroad, and on supporting a bankrupt ¶ welfare system on the island.
- Perpetuate the rather extensive control that the military holds over ¶ the economy and foster the further development of "Mafia type" ¶ groups that manage and profit from important sectors of the ¶ economy, particularly tourism, biotechnology, and agriculture.
- Negate the basic tenets of U.S. policy in Latin America which ¶ emphasize democracy, human rights, and market economies.
- Send the wrong message to the enemies of the U.S.: that a foreign ¶ leader can seize U.S. properties without compensation; allow the ¶ use of his territory for the introduction of nuclear missiles aimed at ¶ the U.S.; espouse terrorismand anti-U.S. causes throughout the ¶ world; and eventually the U.S. will "forget and forgive," and ¶ reward him with tourism, investments, and economic aid.

Cuba will become a failed state if massive changes are implemented—large economic changes in Cuba would lead to destabilization and the collapse of all governmental systems in the country

Azel Sep-08 (José, "How to Think About Change in Cuba: A Guide for Policymakers," José Azel is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Cuban and CubanAmerican Studies, University of Miami, http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/Research_Studies/Article-Azel-FINAL.pdf-http://ctp.iccas.miami.edu/Research_Studies/Article-Azel-FINAL.pdf)

But suppose that the U. S. government and the other constituencies - Cubans
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¶ organizational framework is not conducive to the creation of a new state.

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Obama pushing for immigration reform

Fox 10/28 (Fox News, October 28, 2013, "Republican lobbying groups step up push on House to pass immigration reform," http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/28/republican-lobbying-groups-step-up-push-on-house-to-pass-immigration-reform/)
However, both President Obama and Boehner expressed optimism last week that the House could
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to their home countries to create jobs, invent new products someplace else."

Obama’s political capital key to passage of immigration reform:

Laura Matthews, 10/16/2013 (staff writer, "2013 Immigration Reform Bill: ’I’m Going To Push To Call A Vote,’ Says Obama," http://www.ibtimes.com/2013-immigration-reform-bill-im-going-push-call-vote-says-obama-1429220-http://www.ibtimes.com/2013-immigration-reform-bill-im-going-push-call-vote-says-obama-1429220, Accessed 10/17/2013, rwg)
Still, pro-immigration advocates are hopeful they can attain their goal soon. "With more prodding from the president and the American people," Gutierrez said, "we can get immigration reform legislation passed in the House and signed into law."

Reforming US-Cuba trade laws cause fierce political fights

NY Times 12 ("Easing of Restraints in Cuba Renews Debate on U.S. Embargo", November 19^th, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/world/americas/changes-in-cuba-create-support-for-easing-embargo.html?pagewanted=all26_r=0-http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/world/americas/changes-in-cuba-create-support-for-easing-embargo.html?pagewanted=all26_r=0)

And Cuba has a long history of tossing ice on warming relations. The latest
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reforms’ while, in reality, it’s tightening its grip on its people."

Agriculture industry’s collapsing now—-immigration’s key to solve

Alfonso Serrano 12, Bitter Harvest: U.S. Farmers Blame Billion-Dollar Losses on Immigration Laws, Time, 9-21-12, http://business.time.com/2012/09/21/bitter-harvest-u-s-farmers-blame-billion-dollar-losses-on-immigration-laws/
The Broetjes and an increasing number of farmers across the country say that a complex
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up to 249 billion, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Extinction

Lugar 2k Chairman of the Senator Foreign Relations Committee and Member/Former Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee (Richard, a US Senator from Indiana, is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a member and former chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. "calls for a new green revolution to combat global warming and reduce world instability," pg online @ http://www.unep.org/OurPlanet/imgversn/143/lugar.html)
In a world confronted by global terrorism, turmoil in the Middle East, burgeoning
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in the survival of billions of people and the health of our planet.

Famine is a d-rule  
LaFollette 03 ~Hugh, Cole Chair in Ethics University of South Florida St. Petersburg, PhD at Vanderbilt University, "World Hunger" Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics, ed. Ray Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman, Blackwell 2003, http://www.stpt.usf.edu/hhl/papers/World.Hunger.htm~~  

Those who claim the relatively affluent have this strong obligation must, among other things
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for all than to continue to live at the expense of the starving.

Solvency

Human rights issues in Cuba can only be solved by maintaining the embargo

Delgado Apr-13-13 (AJ, "Bill Maher Ignorantly Rants Against The Cuban Embargo, Adding Himself To The List Of Useful Idiots," Ms. Delgado is a frequent contributor to various political news sites. She holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and worked for several years as a litigator in New York City. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-ignorantly-rants-against-the-cuban-embargo-adding-himself-to-the-list-of-useful-idiots/-http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-ignorantly-rants-against-the-cuban-embargo-adding-himself-to-the-list-of-useful-idiots/)

Few stop to realize that it’s the Cuban-Americans who are most anxious to
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Cuban propaganda machine is counting on you. Carry on, good soldiers.

Lifting the embargo won’t promote democracy in Cuba—they’re already exposed to democracy—exposing them more won’t have any effect

Delgado Apr-13-13 (AJ, "Bill Maher Ignorantly Rants Against The Cuban Embargo, Adding Himself To The List Of Useful Idiots," Ms. Delgado is a frequent contributor to various political news sites. She holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and worked for several years as a litigator in New York City. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-ignorantly-rants-against-the-cuban-embargo-adding-himself-to-the-list-of-useful-idiots/-http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-ignorantly-rants-against-the-cuban-embargo-adding-himself-to-the-list-of-useful-idiots/)

Ah, the tired, naïve ’exposure’ argument that, if only Americans could
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escape, even swimming in shark-infested waters to reach our shores.

Lifting the embargo wouldn’t alleviate Cuba’s economic problems—they have much more to do with Castro policy than anything else

Delgado Apr-13-13 (AJ, "Bill Maher Ignorantly Rants Against The Cuban Embargo, Adding Himself To The List Of Useful Idiots," Ms. Delgado is a frequent contributor to various political news sites. She holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and worked for several years as a litigator in New York City. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-ignorantly-rants-against-the-cuban-embargo-adding-himself-to-the-list-of-useful-idiots/-http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-ignorantly-rants-against-the-cuban-embargo-adding-himself-to-the-list-of-useful-idiots/)

Mention China, and you’ll soon here another embargo-opponent or simpleton (I
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decades of trading with a myriad of nations has not solved its problems.

Lifting the embargo would lead Cuba to flood the US with cheap cigars, rum, citrus, vegetables, nickel, seafood, biotechnology, and sugar—that kills US businesses especially in agriculture and manufacturing

Suchlicki Jun-00 ("The U.S. Embargo of Cuba," JAIME SUCHLICKI is Emilio Bacardi Moreau Professor of History ¶ and International Studies and the Director of the Institute for Cuban ¶ and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami. He was the ¶ founding Executive Director of the North-South Center. For the past ¶ decade he was also the editor of the prestigious Journal of ¶ Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, http://www6.miami.edu/iccas/USEmbargo.pdf-http://www6.miami.edu/iccas/USEmbargo.pdf)

Trade
- No foreign trade that is independent from the state is permitted in ¶ Cuba.
- Cuba would export to the U.S. most of its products, cigars, rum, ¶ citrus, vegetables, nickel, seafood, biotechnology, etc. Yet, since ¶ all of these products are produced by Cuban state enterprises, with ¶ workers being paid below comparable wages, and Cuba has great ¶ need for dollars, the Cuban government could dump products in the ¶ U.S. market at very low prices, and without regard for cost or ¶ economic rationality.
- Many of these products will compete unfairly with U.S. agriculture ¶ and manufactured products, or with products imported from the ¶ Caribbean and elsewhere.
- If the U.S. were to buy sugar from Cuba, it would be to the ¶ detriment of U.S. or Caribbean producers.

The embargo pushes Cuba towards hard decisions towards democracy

Purcell Jun-96 (Susan Kaufman, "The Cuban Illusion: Keeping the Heat on Castro," Director, Center for Hemispheric Policy, at University of Miami, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/52043/susan-kaufman-purcell/the-cuban-illusion-keeping-the-heat-on-castro-http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/52043/susan-kaufman-purcell/the-cuban-illusion-keeping-the-heat-on-castro)

Since the termination of Soviet aid to Cuba, the U.S. embargo
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sanctions against that communist dictatorship only after its economic reform had advanced considerably.

Now is key – only keeping the embargo pressures cuba to enact reforms

Bustillo 13 (Mitchell Bustillo, writer for International Policy Digest, Hispanic Heritage Foundation Gold Medallion Winner, and a former United States Senate Page, "Time to Strengthen the Cuban Embargo" http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2013/05/09/time-to-strengthen-the-cuban-embargo/ 5-9-13)
No doubt, it has been a fruitless 50 years since the embargo was enacted
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to squander the progress of the past 50 years when opportunity is looming.

Latin American democracy’s a key model for democracy globally

Fauriol 26 Weintraub 95 – Georges Fauriol, director of the CSIS Americas Program, and Sidney Weintraub, the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at CSIS and the Dean Rusk Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, Summer 1995, "U.S. Policy, Brazil, and the Southern Cone," The Washington Quarterly, lexis
The democracy theme also carries much force in the hemisphere today. The State Department
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on all three in Latin America will compromise progress elsewhere in the world.

Extinction

Diamond 95 - Larry Diamond, 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 our security and well-
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which a new world order of international security and prosperity can be built.

Cuba’s environment is protected now, but removal of the embargo destroys it

Dean 07 (Cornelia Dean, writer for New York Times, "Conserving Cuba, After the Embargo" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/25/science/25cuba.html?pagewanted=all26_r=0 12-25-07)
Through accidents of geography and history, Cuba is a priceless ecological resource. That
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heads environmental efforts at the Cuban ministry of science, technology and environment.

Cuba is key to biodiversity – that includes Bicknell’s thrush

Dean 07 (Cornelia Dean, writer for New York Times, "Conserving Cuba, After the Embargo" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/25/science/25cuba.html?pagewanted=all26_r=0 12-25-07)
Through accidents of geography and history, Cuba is a priceless ecological resource. That is why many scientists are
About 700 miles long and about 100 miles wide at its widest, Cuba runs
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massive growth in mass tourism when the U.S. embargo lifts."

Bicknell’s thrush is a keystone species

Kerchner et al 07 (Charles Kerchner, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, The University of Vermont; Honzák, Conservation International, Human Dimensions Program, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science; Robin Kemkes, Community Development and Applied Economics, The University of Vermont; Amanda Richardson, Community Development and Applied Economics, The University of Vermont; Jason Townsend, Conservation Biology Program, SUNY – College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse; and Christopher C. Rimmer, Vermont Center for Ecostudies, "Designing spatially explicit incentive programs for habitat conservation: A case study¶ of the Bicknell’s thrush wintering grounds" http://www.vtecostudies.org/PDF/Kerchner20et20al.20BITH20Ecol20Econ202010.pdf 10-14-07)
Deforestation has a signi?cant impact on ecosystem integrity¶ worldwide (Achard et al.,
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on private property in the eastern Cordillera Septentrional¶ of the Dominican Republic.

Keystone species are key to biodiversity

Tews et al 04 (J. Tews, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Plant
Ecology and Nature Conservation, University¶ of Potsdam; U. Brose, Department¶ of Biology, Romberg Tiburon Center, San¶ Francisco State University; V. Grimm, Department of Ecological Modelling,¶ Center for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle; K. Tielbo¨rger, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Plant¶ Ecology and Nature Conservation, University¶ of Potsdam; M. C. Wichmann, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Plant¶ Ecology and Nature Conservation, University¶ of Potsdam; M. Schwager, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Plant¶ Ecology and Nature Conservation, University¶ of Potsdam; F. Jeltsch, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Plant¶ Ecology and Nature Conservation, University¶ of Potsdam, "Animal species diversity driven by habitat¶ heterogeneity/diversity: the importance¶ of keystone structures" http://www.mcwichmann.de/Documents/Tews20et20al.20(2004)20J.20Biogeogr1.pdf 2004)
The majority of studies found a positive correlation between¶ habitat heterogeneity/diversity and
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of the vegetation has profound implications for nature conservation¶ and biodiversity management.

Biodiversity loss leads to extinction

Diaz et al 06 (Diaz S, Professor of Community and Ecosystems Ecology at Córdoba National University; Joseph Fargione, lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy’s North America conservation region; F. Stuart Chapin III, professor of Ecology at the Department of Biology and Wildlife of the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska; and David Tilman, Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology at the University of Minnesota, "Biodiversity Loss Threatens Human Well-Being" http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info3Adoi2F10.13712Fjournal.pbio.0040277 8-15-06)
The diversity of life on Earth is dramatically affected by human alterations of ecosystems ~
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the core of the Earth’s most vital life support systems (Figure 1).

Tournament: USC | Round: 4 | Opponent: College Prep OT | Judge: John Kephart III
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Interpretation – "Engagement" requires increasing economic contacts in trade or financial transactions —- that’s distinct from appeasement

Resnick 1 – Dr. Evan Resnick, Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yeshiva University, "Defining Engagement", Journal of International Affairs, Spring, 54(2), Ebsco

Scholars have limited the concept of engagement in a third way by unnecessarily restricting the
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be shown below, permits the elucidation of multiple types of positive sanctions.

Violation - the plan is appeasement

Times-Dispatch Staff 12
(Jan 22, "Cuba: Patsies," http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/cuba-patsies/article_5755996d-246f-5ca4-ada5-14b567a56603.html-http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/cuba-patsies/article_5755996d-246f-5ca4-ada5-14b567a56603.html, jkim)

The Obama administration’s appeasement of the Castro regime in Cuba was meant to improve conditions
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back efforts at promoting democracy in the island gulag, among other things.

Violation – affirmative only removes Cuba from the terror list which is not a form of economic engagement

Topicality is a voting issue for competitive equity and fairness

Predictable Limits – research focus is on economic policies towards topic countries. Including non-economic engagement explodes these limits. Limits key to neg prep and clash

Ground – All DA and K links are based on economic engagement. Non-economic engagement should be reserved as key neg cp ground. Gound key to in-depth debates and education

Effects T – at best the aff can win that removing Cuba from the terror list might result in economic engagement, but its not a direct result of the plan. Effects T is an independent voter because it makes the aff a moving target and explodes limits

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Movements against neoliberalism are growing and strong in Latin America and spill over globally—-but the plans insistence on US led economic cooperation and integration reifies neoliberalism’s hegemonic grasp—-instead of economic engagement, there must be a de-linking to preserve the environment and  indigenous culture’s survival. Ethics require we don’t ask what we can do for the US but ask what’s best for people living in Latin America.

Harris 8 (Richard L Harris: Professor of Global Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay; Managing Editor of the Journal of Developing Societies (SAGE India); and Coordi­ nating Editor of Latin American Perspectives (SAGE USA). "Latin America’s Response to Neoliberalism and Globalization," http://www.nuso.org/upload/articulos/3506_2.pdf)
The economic, political and social development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries is
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model of uneven and inequitable development that has pillaged most of the region. 

Extinction—-tech and reforms fail

Richard A. Smith 7, Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Research 26 Development, UK; PhD in History from UCLA, June 2007, "The Eco-suicidal Economics of Adam Smith," Capitalism Nature Socialism, Vol. 18, No. 2, p. 22-43
In the midst of the record-breaking heat wave in the summer of 2003
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"endless technical adjustments;" thus no further theoretical thought is required."27

Vote negative to valorize our criticism of Westernized neoliberal logic—-the alternatives knowledge production is capable of re-politicizing capitalism creating the space for transformation away from the 1AC.

Sheppard and Leitner 9 (Eric Sheppard, PhD, geographer and Regents Professor of Economic geography at the University of Minnesota,  Helga Leitner " Quo vadis neoliberalism? The remaking of global capitalist governance after the Washington Consensus," http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/downloads/7235/496.pdf)
We have argued that the shifting global governance discourses directed toward the third world since
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economic and cultural subordination" (Fraser, 1997, p. 28).
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Text: The United States federal government should create a transparency index for State Sponsors of Terrorism and adopt definitions for each level of state sponsorship.

Creating a more indexed list to distinguish between indirect and direct support of terrorism solves best

Brookings Institution, 08 Byman, Director of Research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the
~Daniel L, professor in the Security Studies Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with a concurrent appointment with the Georgetown Department of Government, previous director of Georgetown’s Security Studies Program, May 2008, Saban Center @ the Brookings Institution, "The Changing Nature of State Sponsorship of Terrorism", http://www.brookings.edu/~~/media/research/files/papers/2008/5/terrorism20byman/05_terrorism_byman.pdf-http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2008/5/terrorism byman/05_terrorism_byman.pdf, accessed 7-5-13, GSK~ 

So what Washington should really do is adopt a new ¶ approach that recognizes the
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terror that currently exist than does the outdated ¶ approach Washington employs today.

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Obama pushing for immigration reform

Fox 10/28 (Fox News, October 28, 2013, "Republican lobbying groups step up push on House to pass immigration reform," http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/28/republican-lobbying-groups-step-up-push-on-house-to-pass-immigration-reform/)
However, both President Obama and Boehner expressed optimism last week that the House could
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to their home countries to create jobs, invent new products someplace else."

Obama’s political capital key to passage of immigration reform:

Laura Matthews, 10/16/2013 (staff writer, "2013 Immigration Reform Bill: ’I’m Going To Push To Call A Vote,’ Says Obama," http://www.ibtimes.com/2013-immigration-reform-bill-im-going-push-call-vote-says-obama-1429220-http://www.ibtimes.com/2013-immigration-reform-bill-im-going-push-call-vote-says-obama-1429220, Accessed 10/17/2013, rwg)
Still, pro-immigration advocates are hopeful they can attain their goal soon. "With more prodding from the president and the American people," Gutierrez said, "we can get immigration reform legislation passed in the House and signed into law."

Plan costs capital and is a flip-flop

Williams 13 (Carol, currently at the LA Times, A foreign correspondent for 25 years, Carol J. Williams traveled to and reported from more than 80 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, Political calculus keeps Cuba on U.S. list of terror sponsors. http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-cuba-us-terror-list-20130502,0,2494970.story~23ixzz2YmmqmyTI-http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-cuba-us-terror-list-20130502,0,2494970.story, 5/3/13)

The decision to retain Cuba on the list surprised some observers of the long-
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out to Cuba, that he has more important foreign policy battles elsewhere."

Agriculture industry’s collapsing now—-immigration’s key to solve

Alfonso Serrano 12, Bitter Harvest: U.S. Farmers Blame Billion-Dollar Losses on Immigration Laws, Time, 9-21-12, http://business.time.com/2012/09/21/bitter-harvest-u-s-farmers-blame-billion-dollar-losses-on-immigration-laws/
The Broetjes and an increasing number of farmers across the country say that a complex
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up to 249 billion, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Extinction

Lugar 2k Chairman of the Senator Foreign Relations Committee and Member/Former Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee (Richard, a US Senator from Indiana, is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a member and former chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. "calls for a new green revolution to combat global warming and reduce world instability," pg online @ http://www.unep.org/OurPlanet/imgversn/143/lugar.html)
In a world confronted by global terrorism, turmoil in the Middle East, burgeoning
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in the survival of billions of people and the health of our planet.

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Cuba’s government is oppressing its people and restricting their freedom of speech

Gonzalez, Heritage Foundation communications vice president, 11
~Mike, 7-26-11, The Foundry, "Media Fails to Report on Castro Regime’s Brutal Oppression," http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/26/media-fails-to-report-on-castro-regimes-brutal-oppression/-http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/26/media-fails-to-report-on-castro-regimes-brutal-oppression/, accessed 6-24-13, PR~ YGS

Last week, just outside Cuba’s holiest Catholic shrine, government thugs attacked in plain
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to terrorize and drag a bunch of older women naked through the streets.

Cuban democracy activism is on the rise but it’s fragile-lifting sanctions would collapse the resistance

Tyler, Washington Times State Department correspondent 7/4/13 (Guy, July 4, 2013, Washington Times, "Private talks hint at change in U.S.-Cuba relationship", http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/4/private-talks-hint-at-change-in-us-cuba-relationsh/?page=126utm_medium=RSS26utm_source=RSS_Feed-http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/4/private-talks-hint-at-change-in-us-cuba-relationsh/?page=126utm_medium=RSS26utm_source=RSS_Feed, accessed 7/8/13, KR)

The State Department has quietly been holding talks with a small but diverse cadre of
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— enhancing its ability to crush the island’s fragile pro-democracy movement.

Decreasing sanctions towards Cuba will lead to the repression of Cuban citizens- empirics prove

Diaz-Balart, political science PhD, 12
~Maria, 8-21-12, Fox News Latino, "Mario Diaz-Balart: Obama Has Policy of Appeasement Toward Castro Regime," http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/08/21/mario-diaz-balart-obama-has-pursued-policy-appeasement-toward-castro-regime/-http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/08/21/mario-diaz-balart-obama-has-pursued-policy-appeasement-toward-castro-regime/, accessed 6-24-13, PR~ YGS

Since he took office in January 2009, President Obama has pursued a policy of
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to support political prisoners while increasing the flow of dollars to their jailers.
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Cuba should not be taken off the terror list – support of ETA/FARC, money laundering, and US exiles

Claver-Carone 5/2 /13 (Mauricio, Director of the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC and host of "From Washington al Mundo" on Sirius-XM’s Cristina Radio. He is an attorney, served as an attorney-advisor with the U.S. Treasury Department, and was a member of the law faculty at the Catholic University of America and George Washington University, "Cuba Sees an Opening," The American, http://www.american.com/archive/2013/april/cuba-should-remain-designated-as-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-http://www.american.com/archive/2013/april/cuba-should-remain-designated-as-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism EH)
It would be an insult to the American people if Cuba were to be removed
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absolute control over the island, nor is it likely to do so.

Referring to terrorists as anything else legitimizes their actions
St. Petersburgh Times 3, August 31, 2003, p. 13
Thc madness in the Mideast is all of those things and more, and the
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children must be condemned for what it is - an act of terrorism.

Refusing to call terrorists "terrorists" emboldens unjustifiable acts against violence
Honest Reporting 4, CLALLING TERROR BY ITS NAME, March 16, 2004, http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/reports/Calling_Terror_By_Its_Name.asp

For over three years, in continual updates and through TerrorPetition.com, HonestReporting
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of papers to recently address this issue head-on, however belatedly.

Terror list key to deterring state sponsored terrorism

Trager et al, 2006 - Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University
(Robert F. Trager and Dessislava P. Zagorcheva, Ph.D. candidate in political science at Columbia University, "Deterring Terrorism: It can be done," International Security, Winter 2005/2006, http://www.roberttrager.com/Research_files/IS2006.pdf-http://www.roberttrager.com/Research_files/IS2006.pdf)
State sponsors represent another element of terrorist systems that many view as less motivated and
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to deter would-be state sponsors from supporting larger-scale attacks.

Nuclear terrorism causes extinction – most probable scenario

Creamer, 11 – political organizer and strategist, Strategic Consulting Group (Robert, "Post-Bin Laden, It’s Time to End the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism for Good," Huffington Post, 5/12, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/post-bin-laden—-it-is-ti_b_860954.html)SY-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/post-bin-laden~-~--it-is-ti_b_860954.html)//SY
Worse, al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations have vowed to obtain and actually use
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. Much of the world’s surface would reach winter temperatures in the summer.