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1AC Tournament: \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: \| Judge: Plan The United States federal government should end the economic embargo on Cuba. Advantage One is Human Rights The embargo is destroying human rights in Cuba – denies people access to basic needs, services, and universally agreed upon rights. Coll 07 Professor of Law and President, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul College of Law Alberto R. Coll, Harming Human Rights in the Name of Promoting Them: The Case of the Cuban Embargo, UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Fall, 2007, 12 UCLA J. Intand#39;l L. and For. Aff. 199 Despite small changes, United States maintains an embargo that restricts the flow of goods like medical supplies into Cuba. CNN 13 (Guzmán, Emmy award winning journalist, Sandra, “Jay-Z and Beyoncéand#39;s trip to Cuba isnand#39;t the problem, the embargo is,” CNN, May 8 2013, Online: ¶ http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/07/opinion/guzman-beyonce-jay-z-cuba/index.html) The embargo’s attempts to boost human rights has backfired – removing the embargo would boost human rights, force the regime to stop abusing them, and provide the impetus to improve them through internal change. Amash 12 International Relations at UC San Diego Brandon Amash, Evaluating the Cuban Embargo, Prospect: Journal of International Affairs at UCSD, http://prospectjournal.org/2012/07/23/evaluating-the-cuban-embargo/ Sanctions are human rights violations the consequences are known Marks 99 Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health Stephen P. Marks, Economic Sanctions as Human Rights Violations: Reconciling Political and Public Health Imperatives, American Journal of Public Health, October 1999, Vol. 89, No. 10 Human Rights are an absolute good – must act to protect them in all instances Human Rights Watch 97 An Introduction to the Human Rights Movement, http://www.hrweb.org/intro.html Focus on magnitude masks everyday instances of violence – you have a moral obligation to place a disproportionately high value on structural violence. Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois, Professors of Anthropology @ Berkeley and UPenn, 2004 (Nancy and Philippe, Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22) Human rights framework transforms political calculations – makes poverty, violence, disease, and nuclear conflict unthinkable Seita 97 Professor of law at Albany Law School of Union University Alex Seita, “Globalization and the Convergence of Values”, 30 Cornell Intand#39;l L.J. 429, L/N Survival of the species is only possible by respecting Human Rights Annas et al 02 Edward R. Utley Prof. and Chair Health Law @ Boston U. School of Public Health and Prof. SocioMedical Sciences and Community Science @ Boston U. School of Medicine and Prof. Law @ Boston U. School of Law George, Lori Andrews, (Distinguished Prof. Law @ Chicago-Kent College of Law and Dir. Institute for Science, Law, and Technology @ Illinois Institute Tech), and Rosario M. Isasa, (Health Law and Biotethics Fellow @ Health Law Dept. of Boston U. School of Public Health), American Journal of Law and Medicine, “THE GENETICS REVOLUTION: CONFLICTS, CHALLENGES AND CONUNDRA: ARTICLE: Protecting the Endangered Human: Toward an International Treaty Prohibiting Cloning and Inheritable Alterations”, 28 Am. J. L. and Med. 151, L/N Advantage Two is Relations Ending the embargo would expand credibility, US soft power, and improve US-Cuban relations. Hinderdael 11 M.A. candidate at SAIS Bologna Center, concentrating in American Foreign Policy and Energy, Resources, and Environment Klaas Hinderdael, Breaking the Logjam: Obamaand#39;s Cuba Policy and a Guideline for Improved Leadership, by http://bcjournal.org/volume-14/breaking-the-logjam.html?printerFriendly=true Cuba is key to Latin American relations, goodwill, solving anti-americanism and successful soft power Perez 10 J.D. Yale Law School. Working with Koh former Dean of Yale Law and Legal Advisor to the State Department David A. Perez, Americaand#39;s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department, Spring, 2010, Harvard Latino Law Review, 13 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 187 It would provide immediate and substantial benefits to the US image globally Holmes 10 MA The School of Continuing Studies, Georgetown Michael G. Holmes, SEIZING THE MOMENT, https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/553334/holmesMichael.pdf?sequence=1 Independently - Soft Power limits the size and frequency of conflicts around the world. Nye 96 Professor of International Relations – Harvard University Joseph S. Nye, Jr., 1995/1996, “Conflicts After the Cold War,” Washington Quarterly, 19:1, Winter Action now is key – removing the embargo would boost overall Latin relations and undermine the perception of US isolation globally Perez 10 J.D. Yale Law School. Working with Koh former Dean of Yale Law and Legal Advisor to the State Department David A. Perez, Americaand#39;s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department, Spring, 2010, Harvard Latino Law Review, 13 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 187 U.S. Latin American relations are at a crossroads. Shifter 12 President of Inter-American Dialogue Michael Shifter, “Remaking the Relationship: The United States and Latin America,” April, IAD Policy Report, http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf Latin American relations solve warming. Zedillo et al 08 Commission Co-Chair for the Brookings Institute Report on the Partnership for the Americas and former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo, Thomas R. Pickering, etc, Rethinking U.S.–Latin American Relations A Hemispheric Partnership for a Turbulent World. Report of the Partnership for the Americas Commission, The Brookings Institution, November 2008, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Reports/2008/11/2420latin20america20partnership/1124_latin_america_partnership.PDF Ignore warming critics – action is key, the science is indisputable Pittock 10—led the Climate Impact Group in CSIRO until his retirement in 1999. He contributed to or was the lead author of all four major reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was awarded a Public Service Medal in 1999 and is CSIRO Honorary Fellow. (Barrie, Climate Change: The Science, Impacts, and Solutions, 2010, pg. 240) Warming risks extinction Tickell 08 (Oliver, Climate Researcher, The Gaurdian, “On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange)	9/21/13
IFFs 1ac Tournament: \| Round: 1 \| Opponent: \| Judge: Plan: The United States federal government should make a binding offer to create an Automatic Exchange of Information and Trade Transparency Units with Mexico. Advantage 1 is the economy Illicit financial flows decimate the Mexican economy – First, GDP – IFF’s weaken output and outpace economic growth Kar 12 - Lead Economist at Global Financial Integrity, Former Economist at IMF (Dev, Global Financial Integrity, Mexico: Illicit Financial Flows, Macroeconomic Imbalances, and the Underground Economy, January 2012, http://www.gfintegrity.org/storage/gfip/documents/reports/mexico/gfi_mexico_report_english-web.pdf) Second, Illicit flows diminish funds for economic development and effective governance Corchado, 12 - Mexico bureau chief @ Dallas Morning News (Alfredo, “Exclusive: Mexico pays heavy price for tax evasion, report finds”, 29 January 2012, Dallas Morning News, http://www.dallasnews.com/news/nationworld/mexico/20120128-exclusive-mexico-pays-heavy-price-for-tax-evasion-report-finds.ece) Third, IFF’s slow economic growth and drain capital Curcio 2011 (Mexico: As Violence Spreads, Money Flees¶ January 6, 2011¶ ¶ Karly Curcio is an economist at Global Financial Integrity. ¶ Forthcoming Global Financial Integrity Report Finds Mexican Economy Lost Over US$460 billion between 2000 and 2008 http://www.financialtransparency.org/2011/01/06/mexico-as-violence-spreads-money-flees/) U.S. is key-most of Mexican IFFs end up in U.S. banks Lawton, 12 – Former Canadian policy analyst who worked on anti-money laundering initiatives (Christopher, “U.S. Should Expand Automatic Exchange Of Tax Information To Mexico”, January 31, 2012, Financial Transparency Coalition, http://www.financialtransparency.org/2012/01/31/u-s-should-expand-automatic-exchange-of-tax-information-to-mexico/) Mexico’s economy is key to the US economy Trade – American prosperity depends on Mexico’s economic fundamentals Sarukhan 12 (Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, and#34;Mexico Critically Important’ to US Economy and#34; Wilson Center, 2/24/12, video testimony which was typed out http://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/mexico-E28098critically-importantE28099-to-us-economy) IFFs facilitate and preserve organized cyberterrorist networks Caryl 13 - Senior fellow at the Legatum Institute in London and a Contributing Editor at Foreign Policy Magazine 7/24/13 (Christian, “What a tangled web global criminality weaves,” Australian Financial Review, LexisNexis) Hackers threaten the economy and cost the US billions of dollars a year Mohammed 12 (The Hacker's Market: Cybersecurity Risk in the U.S. Economy Mima Mohammed corrospondet for good but sights Falkenrath who worked for the DoD in cyberdefense and was white house deputy homeland security advosior as well as the deputy commissioner for Counterterrorism 09/26/13 https://www.law.upenn.edu/blogs/regblog/2013/09/26-mohammed-falkenrath-speech.html) Economic decline leads to nuclear war Harris and Burrows, 09 – Counselor in the National Intelligence Council, the principal drafter of Global Trends 2025 (“Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis”, Washington Quarterly, http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_burrows.pdf) Prefer statistically significant evidence Royal 10 (Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction – U.S. Department of Defense, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises”, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213–215) That risks extinction O’Hanlon 12 Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Director of the John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, former Professor at the University of Michigan “The Real National Security Threat: America's Debt,” Los Angeles Times, July 10th, http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2012/07/10-economy-foreign-policy-lieberthal-ohanlon Advantage 2 is international drugs Drug cartels rely on illicit financial flows (IFFs) to launder profits across the U.S.-Mexico border Targeted News Service, 12 (“Mexico Hemorrhages US$872 Billion to Crime, Corruption, Tax Evasion from 1970-2010,” Targeted News Service, January 29, 2012, pageLexis) Status quo banking regulations fail – only granting Mexico’s request for automatic exchange of information (AEI) solves Stier, 09— Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (Ken, “Foreign tax cheats find US banks a safe haven”, Time—Business and Money, October 29, 2009, http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1933288,00.html) Cracking down on IFFs is key to curtailing the drug trade Gascologne, 13 (Clark, “U.S. Senate Report: Tackle Money Laundering to Curtail Drug Trafficking,” April 26, 2013, http://www.gfintegrity.org/content/view/611/70/ Third, political instability – the drug war decides the future of Mexico’s political institutions – failure undermines democracy and leads to regional instability Bonner, 10 (Robert C., Senior Principal of the Sentinel HS Group. He was Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration from 1990 to 1993 and Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection from 2001 to 2005, July/August, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66472/robert-c-bonner/the-new-cocaine-cowboys ) Instability leads to extinction – generates conflict, leads to failed states, and exacerbates all of the root causes of conflict Manwaring ‘5, General Douglas MacArthur Chair and Prof of Military Strategy @ U.S. Army War College, Ret U.S. Army Colonel, Adjunct Professor of International Politics @ Dickinson College (Max G, October, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivarian Socialism, and Asymmetric Warfare”, Strategic Studies Institute, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB628.pdf) Solvency Exchange must be automatic – on request method empirically fails to deter Economist, 2/16/13 (“Tax transparency: Automatic response,” The Economist, 2/16/2013, http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21571561-way-make-exchange-tax-information-work-automatic-response) Developing countries – including Mexico - are capable of implementing AEI –contrary arguments are specious and condescending Gurtner et. al, 09 – Chairman Tax Justice Center International Board, International, non-aligned group or researchers and activists concerned about tax evasion (Bruno, David Spencer, Senior Advisor Tax Justice Center, and Jon Christensen, Secretary for Tax Justice Center, “Automatic Exchange of Information and the United Nations Tax Committee,” December 19, http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/Info_Exchange_Letter_0912.pdf) Trade Transparency Units (TTUs) solve trade mispricing – the largest source of IFFs between the U.S. and Mexico U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, 13 (“The Buck Stops Here: Improving U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Practices,” (April, p. 20, http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=311e974a-feb6-48e6-b302-0769f16185ee)	10/28/13

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1AC

Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge:
Plan

The United States federal government should end the economic embargo on Cuba.

Advantage One is Human Rights
The embargo is destroying human rights in Cuba – denies people access to basic needs, services, and universally agreed upon rights.
Coll 07 Professor of Law and President, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul College of Law Alberto R. Coll, Harming Human Rights in the Name of Promoting Them: The Case of the Cuban Embargo, UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Fall, 2007, 12 UCLA J. Intand#39;l L. and For. Aff. 199

Despite small changes, United States maintains an embargo that restricts the flow of goods like medical supplies into Cuba.
CNN 13 (Guzmán, Emmy award winning journalist, Sandra, “Jay-Z and Beyoncéand#39;s trip to Cuba isnand#39;t the problem, the embargo is,” CNN, May 8 2013, Online: ¶ http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/07/opinion/guzman-beyonce-jay-z-cuba/index.html)

The embargo’s attempts to boost human rights has backfired – removing the embargo would boost human rights, force the regime to stop abusing them, and provide the impetus to improve them through internal change.
Amash 12 International Relations at UC San Diego Brandon Amash, Evaluating the Cuban Embargo, Prospect: Journal of International Affairs at UCSD, http://prospectjournal.org/2012/07/23/evaluating-the-cuban-embargo/

Sanctions are human rights violations the consequences are known
Marks 99 Frangois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health Stephen P. Marks, Economic Sanctions as Human Rights Violations: Reconciling Political and Public Health Imperatives, American Journal of Public Health, October 1999, Vol. 89, No. 10

Human Rights are an absolute good – must act to protect them in all instances
Human Rights Watch 97 An Introduction to the Human Rights Movement, http://www.hrweb.org/intro.html

Focus on magnitude masks everyday instances of violence – you have a moral obligation to place a disproportionately high value on structural violence.
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois, Professors of Anthropology @ Berkeley and UPenn, 2004
(Nancy and Philippe, Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22)

Human rights framework transforms political calculations – makes poverty, violence, disease, and nuclear conflict unthinkable
Seita 97 Professor of law at Albany Law School of Union University Alex Seita, “Globalization and the Convergence of Values”, 30 Cornell Intand#39;l L.J. 429, L/N

Survival of the species is only possible by respecting Human Rights
Annas et al 02 Edward R. Utley Prof. and Chair Health Law @ Boston U. School of Public Health and Prof. SocioMedical Sciences and Community Science @ Boston U. School of Medicine and Prof. Law @ Boston U. School of Law George, Lori Andrews, (Distinguished Prof. Law @ Chicago-Kent College of Law and Dir. Institute for Science, Law, and Technology @ Illinois Institute Tech), and Rosario M. Isasa, (Health Law and Biotethics Fellow @ Health Law Dept. of Boston U. School of Public Health), American Journal of Law and Medicine, “THE GENETICS REVOLUTION: CONFLICTS, CHALLENGES AND CONUNDRA: ARTICLE: Protecting the Endangered Human: Toward an International Treaty Prohibiting Cloning and Inheritable Alterations”, 28 Am. J. L. and Med. 151, L/N

Advantage Two is Relations

Ending the embargo would expand credibility, US soft power, and improve US-Cuban relations.
Hinderdael 11 M.A. candidate at SAIS Bologna Center, concentrating in American Foreign Policy and Energy, Resources, and Environment Klaas Hinderdael, Breaking the Logjam: Obamaand#39;s Cuba Policy and a Guideline for Improved Leadership, by http://bcjournal.org/volume-14/breaking-the-logjam.html?printerFriendly=true

Cuba is key to Latin American relations, goodwill, solving anti-americanism and successful soft power
Perez 10 J.D. Yale Law School. Working with Koh former Dean of Yale Law and Legal Advisor to the State Department David A. Perez, Americaand#39;s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department, Spring, 2010, Harvard Latino Law Review, 13 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 187

It would provide immediate and substantial benefits to the US image globally
Holmes 10 MA The School of Continuing Studies, Georgetown Michael G. Holmes, SEIZING THE MOMENT, https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/553334/holmesMichael.pdf?sequence=1

Independently - Soft Power limits the size and frequency of conflicts around the world.
Nye 96 Professor of International Relations – Harvard University Joseph S. Nye, Jr., 1995/1996, “Conflicts After the Cold War,” Washington Quarterly, 19:1, Winter

Action now is key – removing the embargo would boost overall Latin relations and undermine the perception of US isolation globally
Perez 10 J.D. Yale Law School. Working with Koh former Dean of Yale Law and Legal Advisor to the State Department David A. Perez, Americaand#39;s Cuba Policy: The Way Forward: A Policy Recommendation for the U.S. State Department, Spring, 2010, Harvard Latino Law Review, 13 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 187

U.S. Latin American relations are at a crossroads.
Shifter 12 President of Inter-American Dialogue Michael Shifter, “Remaking the Relationship: The United States and Latin America,” April, IAD Policy Report, http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf

Latin American relations solve warming.
Zedillo et al 08 Commission Co-Chair for the Brookings Institute Report on the Partnership for the Americas and former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo, Thomas R. Pickering, etc, Rethinking U.S.–Latin American Relations A Hemispheric Partnership for a Turbulent World. Report of the Partnership for the Americas Commission, The Brookings Institution, November 2008, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Reports/2008/11/2420latin20america20partnership/1124_latin_america_partnership.PDF

Ignore warming critics – action is key, the science is indisputable
Pittock 10—led the Climate Impact Group in CSIRO until his retirement in 1999. He contributed to or was the lead author of all four major reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was awarded a Public Service Medal in 1999 and is CSIRO Honorary Fellow. (Barrie, Climate Change: The Science, Impacts, and Solutions, 2010, pg. 240)

Warming risks extinction
Tickell 08 (Oliver, Climate Researcher, The Gaurdian, “On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange)

9/21/13

IFFs 1ac

Tournament: | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge:
Plan: The United States federal government should make a binding offer to create an Automatic Exchange of Information and Trade Transparency Units with Mexico.
Advantage 1 is the economy
Illicit financial flows decimate the Mexican economy –
First, GDP – IFF’s weaken output and outpace economic growth
Kar 12 - Lead Economist at Global Financial Integrity, Former Economist at IMF
(Dev, Global Financial Integrity, Mexico: Illicit Financial Flows, Macroeconomic Imbalances, and the Underground Economy, January 2012, http://www.gfintegrity.org/storage/gfip/documents/reports/mexico/gfi_mexico_report_english-web.pdf)

Second, Illicit flows diminish funds for economic development and effective governance
Corchado, 12 - Mexico bureau chief @ Dallas Morning News (Alfredo, “Exclusive: Mexico pays heavy price for tax evasion, report finds”, 29 January 2012, Dallas Morning News, http://www.dallasnews.com/news/nationworld/mexico/20120128-exclusive-mexico-pays-heavy-price-for-tax-evasion-report-finds.ece)
Third, IFF’s slow economic growth and drain capital
Curcio 2011
(Mexico: As Violence Spreads, Money Flees¶ January 6, 2011¶ ¶ Karly Curcio is an economist at Global Financial Integrity. ¶ Forthcoming Global Financial Integrity Report Finds Mexican Economy Lost Over US$460 billion between 2000 and 2008 http://www.financialtransparency.org/2011/01/06/mexico-as-violence-spreads-money-flees/)
U.S. is key-most of Mexican IFFs end up in U.S. banks
Lawton, 12 – Former Canadian policy analyst who worked on anti-money laundering initiatives (Christopher, “U.S. Should Expand Automatic Exchange Of Tax Information To Mexico”, January 31, 2012, Financial Transparency Coalition, http://www.financialtransparency.org/2012/01/31/u-s-should-expand-automatic-exchange-of-tax-information-to-mexico/)
Mexico’s economy is key to the US economy
Trade – American prosperity depends on Mexico’s economic fundamentals
Sarukhan 12 (Arturo Sarukhan, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, and#34;Mexico Critically Important’ to US Economy and#34; Wilson Center, 2/24/12, video testimony which was typed out http://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/mexico-E28098critically-importantE28099-to-us-economy)
IFFs facilitate and preserve organized cyberterrorist networks
Caryl 13 - Senior fellow at the Legatum Institute in London and a Contributing Editor at Foreign Policy Magazine 7/24/13 (Christian, “What a tangled web global criminality weaves,” Australian Financial Review, LexisNexis)
Hackers threaten the economy and cost the US billions of dollars a year
Mohammed 12
(The Hacker's Market: Cybersecurity Risk in the U.S. Economy Mima Mohammed corrospondet for good but sights Falkenrath who worked for the DoD in cyberdefense and was white house deputy homeland security advosior as well as the deputy commissioner for Counterterrorism 09/26/13 https://www.law.upenn.edu/blogs/regblog/2013/09/26-mohammed-falkenrath-speech.html)
Economic decline leads to nuclear war
Harris and Burrows, 09 – Counselor in the National Intelligence Council, the principal drafter of Global Trends 2025 (“Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis”, Washington Quarterly, http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_burrows.pdf)
Prefer statistically significant evidence
Royal 10 (Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction – U.S. Department of Defense, “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises”, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213–215)
That risks extinction
O’Hanlon 12 Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Director of the John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, former Professor at the University of Michigan “The Real National Security Threat: America's Debt,” Los Angeles Times, July 10th, http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2012/07/10-economy-foreign-policy-lieberthal-ohanlon
Advantage 2 is international drugs
Drug cartels rely on illicit financial flows (IFFs) to launder profits across the U.S.-Mexico border
Targeted News Service, 12 (“Mexico Hemorrhages US$872 Billion to Crime, Corruption, Tax Evasion from 1970-2010,” Targeted News Service, January 29, 2012, pageLexis)
Status quo banking regulations fail – only granting Mexico’s request for automatic exchange of information (AEI) solves
Stier, 09— Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (Ken, “Foreign tax cheats find US banks a safe haven”, Time—Business and Money, October 29, 2009, http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1933288,00.html)
Cracking down on IFFs is key to curtailing the drug trade
Gascologne, 13 (Clark, “U.S. Senate Report: Tackle Money Laundering to Curtail Drug Trafficking,” April 26, 2013, http://www.gfintegrity.org/content/view/611/70/
Third, political instability – the drug war decides the future of Mexico’s political institutions – failure undermines democracy and leads to regional instability
Bonner, 10 (Robert C., Senior Principal of the Sentinel HS Group. He was Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration from 1990 to 1993 and Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection from 2001 to 2005, July/August, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66472/robert-c-bonner/the-new-cocaine-cowboys )
Instability leads to extinction – generates conflict, leads to failed states, and exacerbates all of the root causes of conflict
Manwaring ‘5, General Douglas MacArthur Chair and Prof of Military Strategy @ U.S. Army War College, Ret U.S. Army Colonel, Adjunct Professor of International Politics @ Dickinson College (Max G, October, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivarian Socialism, and Asymmetric Warfare”, Strategic Studies Institute, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB628.pdf)
Solvency

Exchange must be automatic – on request method empirically fails to deter
Economist, 2/16/13 (“Tax transparency: Automatic response,” The Economist, 2/16/2013, http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21571561-way-make-exchange-tax-information-work-automatic-response)
Developing countries – including Mexico - are capable of implementing AEI –contrary arguments are specious and condescending
Gurtner et. al, 09 – Chairman Tax Justice Center International Board, International, non-aligned group or researchers and activists concerned about tax evasion (Bruno, David Spencer, Senior Advisor Tax Justice Center, and Jon Christensen, Secretary for Tax Justice Center, “Automatic Exchange of Information and the United Nations Tax Committee,” December 19, http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/Info_Exchange_Letter_0912.pdf)
Trade Transparency Units (TTUs) solve trade mispricing – the largest source of IFFs between the U.S. and Mexico
U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, 13 (“The Buck Stops Here: Improving U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Practices,”
(April, p. 20, http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=311e974a-feb6-48e6-b302-0769f16185ee)

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