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1ac ugaTournament: UGA | Round: 3 | Opponent: Chattahoochee HM | Judge: Nasir Nanjee 1accontention 1 is coalitionScenario 1 is relationsChanging Cuba policy uniquely key – it’s highly symbolic of the US attitude towards the entire region- now is key to prevent collapse in relationsSweig and Bustamante 13 - Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations; Ph.D. candidate in Latin American history at Yale University (Julia E. and Michael J, Cuba After Communism, Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug2013, Vol. 92, Issue 4 The geopolitical context in Latin America provides another reason the U.S. government Plan boosts US credibility in the region and salvages regional cooperation – sends a signal to Latin America that the US is willing to be reasonable.White 3/7 –(Robert E. White, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, was the United States ambassador to Paraguay from 1977 to 1979 and to El Salvador from 1980 to 1981, "After Chávez, a Chance to Rethink Relations With Cuba " NYTimes March 7, 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/opinion/after-chavez-hope-for-good-neighbors-in-latin-america.html?pagewanted=126_r=026partner=rss26emc=rss-Accessed-7-9-13-RX) Yet for a half-century, our policies toward our southern neighbors have alternated Cuba is key to US-Latin American Relations-specifically spills-over to global coop on warming- overcomes alt causesShifter ’12 - (Michael is an Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and writes for the Council’s journal Foreign Affairs. He serves as the President of Inter-American Dialogue. "Remaking the Relationship: The United States and Latin America," April, IAD Policy Report, http://www.thedialogue.org/PublicationFiles/IAD2012PolicyReportFINAL.pdf) Cuba, too, poses a significant challenge for relations between the United States and That’s key to solve warmingSlaughter’11 - (Anne-Marie, Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 university professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, "Problems Will Be Global — And Solutions Will Be, Too", Foreign Policy, Sept/Oct, Issue 188, Ebsco) Driving this massive multilateralization is the increasingly global and regional nature of our problems, Warming is real and anthropogenicEDF ’09 - ~Environmental Defense Fund, a US-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group, "Global Warming Myths and Facts," 1/13/2009, http://mrgreenbiz.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/global-warming-myths-and-facts-2/~~ There is no debate among scientists about the basic facts of global warming. The Warming kills billionsCummins ’10 - (Ronnie, International Director – Organic Consumers Association and Will Allen, Advisor – Organic Consumers Association, writer since 1960s- with extensive experience in environmental campaigns as well as sustainable agriculture he has served as the Director of PFC and GDAAGMO "Climate Catastrophe: Surviving the 21st Century", 2-14, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/14-6) The hour is late. Leading climate scientists such as James Hansen are literally shouting Scenario 2 is multilateralismUnilateralism causes great power war via self-sufficient trading blocs*unilateralism fails – In an election season, such talk rolls easily off the tongue. But Romney’s The plan solves–First, repeal would represent a commitment to multilateralism for the international community*plan spreads multilateralism – only the removal of the embargo carries the symbolic weight of revoking previous unilateral efforts to backlash against other countries in votes during conferences in the UN 6.3 How would the international community react? At international level all major Second, the plan fosters a credible conflict resolution model which prevents conflict in Kashmir and the Middle East – status quo policies risk disengagement*plan fosters a credible conflict resolution model – increases diplomatic negotiations with Cuba which even if they fail garner international support for America in multilateral negotiations – also increase Cuban relations which spreads democratic efforts worldwide giving the US a hedge in multilateral institutions At the international political level, President Obama sees resuming relations with Cuba as a Middle East war causes extinctionBeck 5/28 – Middle East Analyst at The Commentator, extensive journalism background, two ivy league degrees (Noah, "A nuclear Middle East is doomsday, 5/28/13, http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3633/a_nuclear_middle_east_is_doomsday)//SJF As the Obama administration tries to unbury itself from snowballing scandals, my apocalyptic thriller Multilateralism leads to greater power sharing and international cooperation, resolving conflict*multilateralism solves global problems – Because it rests on open, nondiscriminatory debate, and the routine exchange of viewpoints contention 2 is agricultureGlobal industrial agriculture is unsustainable and decks the environment*global agriculture is unsustainable – other countries’ technology is insufficient, several reasons: The U.S. agricultural system is becoming increasingly more concentrated, specialized, Cuba’s model of urban agriculture is a sustainable alternative*urban farming is a sustainable model for global adaptation – While urban agriculture was a response to a dramatic crisis in Cuba’s history, through Cuba is the vanguard of a global model for sustainable agricultureRuiz-Marrero 6/9 - Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero is a research associate at the Institute for Social Ecology and director of the Puerto Rico Project on Biosafety http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/07/cubas-other-revolution/ Plan solves: First, the plan spreads organoponic production, revitalizing urban spaces*exports organoponic production – Cuba urban farming is a decentralized production model which is cost-attractive because of the lack of expensive technology associated with industrial farming which makes private companies incentivized to adopt the model VI. New Opportunities Second, access to the US export market uniquely key to spread the Cuban modelKost, 4 – agricultural economist, Specialty Crops Branch, Economic Research. Service, US Department of Agriculture (William, "CUBAN AGRICULTURE: TO BE OR NOT TO BE ORGANIC?" In addition to the above European markets, the successful expansion and viability of Cuba’s Plan prevents Cuban backslidingKing ’12 - M. Dawn King, Professor of Environmental Studies at Brown, 3/21/12, (Cuban Sustainability: The Effects of Economic Isolation on Agriculture and Energy, wpsa.research.pdx.edu/meet/2012/kingmdawn.pdf) Cuba needed an alternative agricultural model when foreign oil imports were cut off significantly at Plan won’t cause Cuban abandonment of agroecologyCornell ’09 - Christina Cornell, Research Associate at Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 4/17/09 Many worry whether Cuba’s budget and planning services will be able to maintain its commitment A transition to organic agriculture is necessary to prevent ocean acidificationRonnie Cummins 10, International Director of the Organic Consumers Association, 10/7/10 Because U.S farm and forest soils are so degraded from chemical-intensive Ocean acidification now results in extinction absent the plan – impossible to adaptGattuso 9 - D. Sc. in Biological Oceanography, University of Nice, France, Ph. D. in Biological Oceanography, University of Aix-Marseille II, France, Master of Science, University of Aix-Marseille II, France, Research Professor, Marine Biology Institute, Shantou University, China, CNRS Senior Research Scientist(Jean-Pierre"The toxic sea," March 2009, http://oceanacidification.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/the-toxic-sea/)JCP They are calling it "the other CO2 problem". Its victim is not the Industrial agriculture crushes the environment and bio-diversity, threatening extinction*industrial agricultural practices cause extinction – depletes scarce resources, overexploits agricultural areas and spurs resource wars – polluting fertilizer causes soil erosion collapsing the environment – makes extinction inevitable Virtually every past civilization has eventually undergone collapse, a loss of socio-political planThe United States federal government should normalize its trade relations with Cuba.contention 3 is solvencyPlan solves immediatelyHolmes ’10 (G. Holmes, MA from Georgetown, "SEIZING THE MOMENT," https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstj ream/handle/10822/553334/holmesMichael.pdf?sequence=1) From an image stand point repealing the sanctions and removing the embargo is symbolic. It shows Cuba and the world that although the United States is pro democracy, it does not wish to impose its values on other nations. The Cuba Democracy Act was an attempt to force democratic changes in Cuba.10 By repealing the act the United States, illustrates that it respe’’’ | 3/1/14 |
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