Tournament: 1AC | Round: 1 | Opponent: 1AC | Judge: 1AC
Plan: The United States federal government should lift all economic restrictions on Cuba.
Contention 1 is Inherency
The US maintains economic restrictions on Cuba
Guzmán ’13 (SANDRA GUZMAN, award-winning writer, “Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s trip to Cuba isn’t the problem, the embargo is,” CNN, May 8th, http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/07/opinion/guzman-beyonce-jay-z-cuba/index.html) PD
Contention 2 is Obama
Engagement necessary in the squo to maintain international momentum
Dickerson ‘10 (LT. COLONEL SERGIO M. DICKERSON, "United States Security Strategy Towards Cuba," Strategy Research Project, US Army, January 14th, www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2anddoc=GetTRDoc.pdfandAD=ADA518053) PD
Concessions to Cuba uniquely key to Obama’s diplomacy
French ‘10 (ANYA LANDAU FRENCH, Director for the U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative, “Stiffing Havana”, Foreign Policy, October 19th, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/19/stiffing_havana#sthash.Md6RdYCr.dpbs) PD
Obama cred uniquely key to solve conflict- deals key to ensure East Asian peace
Coes ‘11 (BEN COES, former speechwriter in the George H.W. Bush administration, “The disease of a weak president”, September 30th, The Daily Caller, http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/the-disease-of-a-weak-president/) PD
Kashmir escalates in the squo- Pakistani government, water scarcity, and fear of preemptive strike- effective conflict resolution key
Krepon 12/3 (MICHAEL KREPON, co-founder of the Stimson Center, December 3rd 2013, “Deterrence stability and escalation control in South Asia”, December 3rd 2013, Rising Kashmir, http://www.risingkashmir.com/deterrence-stability-and-escalation-control-in-south-asia/) PD
Contention 3 is Science
Scenario 1 is Oil
The Embargo ensures high risk to drilling in the squo
Stephens ’11 (SARAH STEPHENS, executive director of Center for Democracy in the Americas “Like Oil and Water in the Gulf”, Los Angeles Times, March 14th, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/14/opinion/la-oe-stephens-cuba-oil-20110314) PD
Cooperation is key to stopping oil spills
Conell ’09 (CHRISTINA CONELL, Research Associate, “The U.S. and Cuba: Destined to be an Environmental Duo?,” Council on Hemispheric Affairs, June 12th, http://www.coha.org/the-us-and-cuba-an-environmental-duo/) PD
Loss of oceanic bio-d kills all animal and plant life- mass extinction
Jackson ‘08 (JEREMY B. C. JACKSON, Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, “Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean”, August 12th, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, http://www.pnas.org/content/105/suppl.1/11458.full) PD
Scenario 2 is Science Diplomacy
The embargo guts medical solvency for the Cuban nation- complicates industry
Amnesty International ’12 (AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, “Annual Report 2011: Cuba,” 2012, http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/cuba/report-2011)
Renewed engagement key to preserve scientific development
Pastrana and Clegg ’08 (SERGIO JORGE PASTRANA and MICHAEL T. CLEGG, foreign secretary, academy of sciences, professor, UC Irvine, “U.S. – Cuban Scientific Relations,” October 17th, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/322/5900/345) PD
US-Cuba science cooperation is key to solve all tropical disease – more virulent strains of hepatitis, bird flu, H1N1, dengue fever, and others are coming in the status quo which means the plan is critical
Discovery 2-11-13
Discovery News, February 11, 2013, “Could Cuba Help U.S. Fight Tropical Diseases?” http://news.discovery.com/human/cuba-help-fight-tropical-diseases-dengue-fever.htm WD
Disease spread ensures extinction
Yu, ‘09 (VICTORIA YU, Undergraduate, Dartmouth University, “Human Extinction: The Uncertainty of Our Fate,” May 22nd, http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/spring-2009/human-extinction-the-uncertainty-of-our-fate) PD
Contention 4 is Rights
Status quo Cuban embargo policies violate basic human rights
Amnesty International Publications, 2007 part of the UN Amnesty International, “THE US EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA” http://www.amnesty.org/es/library/asset/AMR25/007/2009/es/51469f8b-73f8-47a2-a5bd-f839adf50488/amr250072009eng.pdf MN
The embargo is a relic of Cold War policy that serves to oppress citizens and uses the Cuban people as a means to an end.
Lesser, Financial Director at the George Washington Pre-Law Student Association, 10
(Max, November 9th 2010, Penn Political Review, “The End of the Embargo Era,” http://pennpoliticalreview.org/2010/11/the-end-of-the-embargo-era/, accessed 7/12/13, AS)
Specifically, sanctions require the US to oppose any loans to Cuba, financial restrictions prevent normal banking transactions, and dual-use restrictions prevent importation of critical medical supplies.
Bolender, 13
Keith, 4-22-13, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, “The Terrorist List, and Terrorism as Practiced Against Cuba,” http://www.coha.org/22355/, accessed 6-25-13, YGS
This direct violence against the Cuban people is a form of economic terrorism, but is concealed by an ethically bankrupt form of consequentialism that excuses this violence in the name of national security.
Kauzlarich, professor of sociology @ Southern Illinois, et al, 01
David, Rick A. Matthews, Ohio University, William J. Miller, professor @ Carthage College, 2001, Critical Criminology, “Toward A Victimology of State Crime”, http://jthomasniu.org/class/781/Assigs/kauzvictimology.pdf, accessed 7-1-13, GSK
This is a form of American sponsored genocide on Cuban citizens
Simons, freelance author, 1999
Geoff, “Imposing Economic Sanctions”, Pluto Press, 12-13, chip