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Venezuela edited 1AC-Venezuela There is a war going on all around us, between the exporters of capitalism and th…

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There is a war going on all around us, between the exporters of capitalism and those oppressed by it. Latin America has become the biggest threat to neoliberalism and Venezuela is in the lead
Carlson 7 (Chris Carlson activist living in Venezuela. 2007 “Venezuela in the Center of the World”- http://www.stateofnature.org/?p=6131)
Venezuela has become a symbol of hope against economic control in Latin America.
Bhatt14 (Keane Bhatt is a Washington, D.C.-based activist and writer, and a contributing editor to the North American Congress on Latin America. “US Backing the Destabilization of Venezuela”February 24, http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11500)
Right wing extremists are creating violent movements in Venezuela as an effort to destabilize the government.
Sánchez 14 (Álvaro is Charge d’Affaires a.i. at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the UK and Ireland “President Maduro Is Calling for Peace and Dialogue - It's Opposition Extremists That Want Violence” 10/03/2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/alvaro-sanchez/venezuela-protests-maduro_b_4912155.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics&ir=UK+Politics)
These Protests are causing violence to the civilians. Mallett-Outtrim 2014 (Ryan citizen of Merida city, Santa Anita whose testimony was told to Venezuelanalysis.com by people in, Merida, 2 Marchhttp://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/10438)
Maduro is trying to start peace talks while the protestors are causing more disruption and are being portrayed as peaceful by the Media.
Sánchez 14 (Álvaro is Charge d’Affaires a.i. at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the UK and Ireland “President Maduro Is Calling for Peace and Dialogue - It's Opposition Extremists That Want Violence” 10/03/2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/alvaro-sanchez/venezuela-protests-maduro_b_4912155.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics&ir=UK+Politics)
So Sadiya and I advocate The United States Federal Government should lift all current economic sanctions and prevent any future sanctions on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
The U.S has and is implementing sanctions to strengthen the movements –We’re a critical motion against U.S. imperialist hegemony
Popular Resistance March 10th, 2014 (Popular Resistance is Daily Movement News and Resources “Venezuela Threat is The Threat of a Good Example” http://www.popularresistance.org/venezuela-threat-is-the-threat-of-a-good-example/)
The Venezuelan government has resisted the neoliberal hegemony imposed by elites like the U.S. Our support for their Government is not just a way to challenge neoliberalism control in Latin America but also a way for us to challenge the neoliberal education we’re feed.
ROOS 2014 (By JEROME - ROAR MAGAZINE, Editor at Breakthrough Europe
Editor at Reflections on a Revolution (ROAR), Chair at Spearhead Action Group, and a magazine dedicated to analyzing the situation in VenezuelaFebruary 22nd “Venezuela: It’s the Opposition That’s Anti-Democratic”, http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/10389)
Our framework is we should understand the debate in terms of competing forms of knowledge production –
You’re not a policy maker you’re an academic, Neoliberalism expands by controlling our understanding of the world and the way we define ourselves within it as the judge your ballot represents your shift away from capitalist subjectivity.
Read ‘9 (Jason, The University of Southern Maine, A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Neoliberalism and the Production of Subjectivity, Foucault Studies, No 6, pp. 25-36, February 2009)
Our knowledge production is an endorsement for alternatives to neoliberalism we use Venezuela as a vehicle to further criticize the neoliberal structures that function all around us. Wise 9 (Director of Doctoral Program in Migration Studies & Prof of Development Studies; Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico)(Raúl Delgado, Forced Migration and US Imperialism: The Dialectic of Migration and Development, Crit Sociol, 35: 767, ProQuest)
Academic and education spaces like debate are necessary to challenge the current neoliberal regime critical pedagogy is key to creating social transformation.
Giroux 11(Chair of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, “Rejecting Academic Labor as a Subaltern Class: Learning from Paula Freire and the Politics of Critical Pedagogy”, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/8_2/Giroux8_2.html)
Only radical reorientation of our politics can solve the impact of extinction created by the multiple scenarios of disaster capitalism
Parr ’13 (Adrian, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Environmental Studies @ U. of Cincinnati, THE WRATH OF CAPITAL: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics, pp. 145-147)

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aboliton edited Indefinite detention did not begin on 9/11 in Afghanistan or Iraq. It is overdetemined by the da…

Indefinite detention did not begin on 9/11 in Afghanistan or Iraq. It is overdetemined by the dangerously normal state of imprisonment created by the US carceral complex, in which 3 million people of color are imprisoned to establish the core of the American social order. Military prisons and indefinite detention writ large can only be understood through their connections to the general social order Whitmer 6 (BENJAMIN WHITMER University of Colorado, Boulder, "Torture Chambers and Rape Rooms": What Abu Ghraib Can Tell Us about the American Carceral System, The New Centennial Review, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2006, pp. 171-194 (Article))
All detention has become indefinite – the US has created a permanent prison population – results in social death Gordon 6 (Avery Gordon is professor in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author, most recently, of Keeping Good Time: reflections on knowledge, power, and people, “Abu Ghraib: imprisonment and the war on terror” Race Class 2006 48: 42)
This detention complex has become a state of never ending war waged in the “home front” of the United States. The failure of the progressive left to confront the prison industrial complex fuels a state of domestic warfare Rodriguez ‘8 (Dylan Rodríguez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned two B.A. degrees and a Concentration degree from Cornell University. He was nationally recognized by Diverse magazine as one of its Emerging Scholars of 2006, and has been a Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow, Abolition Now! P. 93-100)
While denying the exception of foreign prisons and indefinite detention we cannot reduce them to analogs. These are structurally connected forms of oppression that must be abolished in totality. Sexton and Lee 6 (Jared Sexton African American Studies Program, University of California, Irvine, Elizabeth Lee Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Figuring the Prison: Prerequisites of Torture at Abu Ghraib, Antipode Volume 38, Issue 5, pages 1005–1022, November 2006)
U.S. is exporting prison model to Latin America Chatha 12 (Nasim Chatha, Alliance for Global Justice, USA’s Prison Industrial Complex Moves South of the Border June 20, 2012, http://afgj.org/usa%E2%80%99s-prison-industrial-complex-moves-south-of-the-border)
Thus Sadiya and I advocate that The United States federal government should deconstruct Guantanamo bay’s military base, and provide technical cooperation over the transfer of United States owned physical assets in the island of Cuba to the Republic of Cuba.
We use Guantanamo Bay as a starting point for abolition.
Veeren 2013 (Elspeth Van Veeren is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Sussex “Clean War, Invisible War, Liberal War: The Clean and Dirty Politics of Guantánamo”p.95-97 https://www.academia.edu/1990191/Clean_War_Invisible_War_Liberal_War)
Academic and Educational spaces like debate are necessary to produce lasting forms of change. Academic resistances and advocacy of abolition has empirically undone dominant narratives of liberal reform. Rodríguez 12 (Dylan, Racial/Colonial Genocide and the “Neoliberal Academy”: In Excess of a Problematic, American Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 4, December 2012, pp. 809-813)
Prefer these forms of systemic violence Omolade 1984, Barbara, Calvin College’ first dean of multicultural affairs, “Women of Color and the Nuclear Holocaust”, Women’s Studies Quarterly vol. 12, No. 2)
Our advocacy of the United States Federal Government is a form of activism against what the government is, in supports for what it should look like.
Howard, 2005(Adam, “Jeffersonian Democracy: Of the People, By the People, For the People,”http://www.byzantinecommunications.com/adamhoward/homework/highschool/jeffersonian.html, 5/27)
Imprisonment forces us to rethink the way we think about life – rejecting a focus on biological death is crucial for challenging systems of power Dillon11(PhD in American Studies at Minnesota, now an Assistant Professor of Queer Studies at Hampshire College)
(Stephen, “The Only Freedom I Can See” in Captive Genders, AK Press pg. 182-3)
Abolition must be directed towards destroying the world the prison sits on and the violence that makes it possible Davis 5 (Angela, Abolition Democracy, p. 68-76)

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Plan: The United States Federal Government should give assistance towards Mexico’s space program with the intent to colonize in space.
Advantage 1 Salvation
Governments are not investing in colonization in the status quo.
Falconer 11, (Joe Australian editor of TheNextWeb news service, 6/26/2011, “What Would Colonization of the Final Frontier Look Like?” http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/06/26/what-would-colonization-of-the-final-frontier-look-like/)
Mexico’s will go with the plan their looking to improve their space program, only thing stopping them is funding.
Regalado 2010 (Antonio Regalado is a contributing correspondent for Science in Latin America “Mexico Gets a Space Agency” 22 April 2010
http://news.sciencemag.org/2010/04/mexico-gets-space-agency)
Mexico’s looking for international cooperation for their space program
Cahuich 10 (Lourdes is a professor, educator, and all-around astronomy promoter. Currently a professor of computing and volunteer for the Mexican Space Agency “Mexico has Space Agency!” July 30, 2010 http://www.seti.cl/mexico-tiene-agencia-espacial/)
NO ONE’S pursing colonization and Spaceflight program is ending now
Gott 09 [J. Richard Gott, Professor of Astrophysics at Princeton University, July 17, 2009, “A GOAL FOR THE HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT PROGRAM,” online: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/368985main_GottSpaceflightGoal.pdf]
It’s now or never-
Space colonization is the ONLY way to save the human race
Fox News 10 [Fox News, “Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns – Again”, http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/09/abandon-earth-face-extinction-warns-stephen-hawking/, 6/9/10]
It’s Try or Die for human survival-
Extinction is inevitable on earth - nuke war, bioweapons, overpopulation, and warming
Leslie 99 [John, Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member, “Risking Human Extinction”, http://lifeboat.com/ex/risking.human.extinction]
Extinction is inevitable on earth - nuke war, bioweapons, overpopulation, and warming
Leslie 99 [John, Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member, “Risking Human Extinction”, http://lifeboat.com/ex/risking.human.extinction]
Advantage 2 Utopia
Committing to space colonization enacts an overview effect, inaugurating the spirit of human wholeness and connectedness—this solves for human fragmentation and violent divisiveness.
Asimov 03, Isaac President of the American Humanist Association, Biochemist, and famous author, 2003 “Our Future in the Cosmos – Space,” http://www.wronkiewicz.net/asimov.html
the “Overview Effect” solves war as we shift to a more peaceful mindset.
White 98, Frank space writer and lecturer, 1998, “The overview effect: space exploration and human evolution” page 48
Colonizing space will cause the next renaissance and promote universal prosperity and clarity THIS is Utopia.
Collins and Autino, 08 Patrick Professor of Economics at Azabu University (Japan); Adriano President of the Space Renaissance International, 2008 “What the Growth of a Space Tourism Industry Could Contribute to Employment, Economic Growth, Environmental Protection, Education, Culture and World Peace”
Reject the idea of an absolutely “know” of the natural world the consideration of the overview effect opens a new space of knowledge
Zeitlin 06 [Gerry Zeitlin, openseti.org, graduate of Cornell University (B.E.E. 1960) and the University of Colorado (M.S.E.E. 1969). He pursued further graduate studies in physics, astronomy, and astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley, New Search Strategies, http://openseti.org/NewSearches.html]
Advantage 3- Helium
Mexican oil production has dried up
Krauss and Malkin ’10 (“Mexico Oil Politics Keeps Riches Just Out of Reach” New York Times, Clifford Krauss and Elisabeth Malkin, March 8, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/business/global/09pemex.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)
The plan eases supply shortages, colonizing allows for mining of He3 which sets up a new energy source
Evans 09 [James – Assistant Professor of Sociology “Mining the Moon: Helium 3 could revolutionalize the world” December 5, 2009]
This prevents 2 scenarios :
scenario 1 is hegemony
Plan Key to government stability
Villarreal ’12
(M. Angeles Villarreal, Specialist in International Trade and Finance, “U.S.-Mexico Economic Relations: Trends, Issues, and Implications”, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32934.pdf, August 9, 2012)
A Mexican collapse destroys U.S. heg
Haddick 2010[Robert - managing editor @ Small Wars Journal, "This week at war: If Mexico is at war, does America have to win it?", Foreign Policy, September 10,
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/09/10/this_week_at_war_if_mexico_is_at_war_does_america_have_to_win_it]
US heg collapse causes political and economic instability
Sheetz ‘6
(Dr. Mark Sheetz, Faculty Member of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, GCSP Policy Brief No. 15 US Hegemony and Globalization, 2006, DA: 7/16/11, MadSu)
scenario 2 is resource wars:
Resource wars coming unless we switch energy
Peters 09 [“Courting Future Resource Conflict: The Shortcomings of Western Response Strategies to New Energy Vulnerabilities”, july 29, 2009, Susanne Peters]
Resource wars coming unless we switch energy
Peters 09 [“Courting Future Resource Conflict: The Shortcomings of Western Response Strategies to New Energy Vulnerabilities”, july 29, 2009, Susanne Peters]
Resource scarcity causes wars – empirically proven
Hsu 11 [Jeremy Hsu – interview report with Christine Parthemore - Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS ), where she directs the Natural Security Program, http://www.cnas.org/node/6361, May 13, 2011]
Now is key – current energy is almost exhausted
D’Souza, Otalvaro, Singh 06 [“HARVESTING HELIUM-3 FROM THE MOON”, Marsha R. D’Souza, Diana M. Otalvaro, Deep Arjun Singh. Februry 17, 2006]

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Most Affirmative plan will propose a policy that exploits another country for its resources, ignoring how women are treated in the process. My partner and I want to propose to plan that allows for our opponents and judges to understand the treatment of Latin American women, specifically in Mexico.
Contention 1 : Work Conditions
The unemployed in Mexico are forced to accept any available employment: “maquiladoras” represent the most dismal sweat shops in the world and carnal abuses of human rights: this is modern day slavery
JSGA No Date
(The Juss Semper Global Alliance; TLWNSI is a long-term program developed to contribute to social justice in the world by achieving fair labour endowments for the workers of all the countries immersed in the global market system. “Mexico: Hell Is The Tijuana Assembly Line”, http://www.jussemper.org/Resources/Corporate%20Activity/mexicohellinmexico'smaquil.html)
Women working in Maquiladoras are exposed to extreme abuse and subject to the worst forms of commodification
Sarria (Research assistant) August 3rd, 2009 (“Femicides of Juárez: Violence Against Women in Mexico” Council of Hemispheric Affairs MLW)
Conditions for the female body are dismal – women in the Maquiladora are reduced to machinery and intolerably abused
Jorgensen September 7th, 2010 (Sierra, “Maquiladoras and the Exploitation of Women’s Bodies” Brian Mawr College Female and Gender Studies) MLW
Contention 2: Femincide
Female disappearance has become legal in Ciudad Juárez.
Wright 08—tenured professor of geography and women’s studies at Penn State
Melissa M., “From Protests to Politics: Sex Work, Women's Worth, and Ciudad Juárez Modernity” [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.09402013.x] – February 29- cut by CJC
The number of murders in Ciudad Juarez continue to rise yet convictions and arrests are rare. Cave 12- foreign correspondent for The New York Times
Damien, “Wave of Violence Swallows More Women in Juárez” [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/world/americas/wave-of-violence-swallows-more-women-in-juarez-mexico.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0]- June 23//CJC
The Mexican government doesn’t protect its women from rape and murder
Jor 04
Sierra “The Systematic Destruction of Women's Agency in Ju”
[http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/forum/viewforum.php?forum_id=304]
One of the organization that could help, Casa Amiga, has little to no funding
Naomie Strada JULY 29, 2010
http://community.feministing.com/2010/07/29/casa_amiga_has_no_financial_fr/
There are two parts to feminicide, the ones committing the action and the government who allows it to happen
Santos 09
Stephanie, “The Death of Eugenia Baja: Feminicide and Transnational Feminist Organizing among Filipina Migrant Workers”
[http://aascpress.metapress.com/content/c263342l51q7723q/fulltext.pdf]
The woman in latin societies is constructed from the male, forcing Latinas into a subservient rule
Hernandez-Truyol 99 (Berta Esperanza, Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law, “INTER-GROUP SOLIDARITY: MAPPING THE INTERNAL/EXTERNAL DYNAMICS OF OPPRESSION: Latina Multidimensionality and LatCrit Possibilities: Culture, Gender, and Sex”, Lexis)
Privileging masculinity without recognizing the linkages between different types of violence makes women’s oppression, war and domestic violence inevitable
Jill Steans, Senior Lecturer in International Relations Theory , Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, Gender and International Relations: An Introduction, 1998 p. 101-102
Thus my partner and I advocate that the United Sates Federal government should fund NGOs, such as Casa Amiga

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embargo edited Embargo pt.3 the orders usually relations human rights then econ and we debated Loc and Carlos (ex…

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Cuban Embargo Aff---Plan: The United States Federal Government should lift the Cuban EmbargoPlan: The United States Federal Government should lift the Cuban Embargo
Cuban Embargo Aff-Human Rights AdvantageHuman Rights Advantage
Cuban Embargo Aff-Human Rights Advantage--No offense – the embargo has repeatedly failed to liberalize Cuban governance and solidifies support for regime hardlinersNo offense – the embargo has repeatedly failed to liberalize Cuban governance and solidifies support for regime hardliners
Bandow 12 (Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a former special assistant to former US president Ronald Reagan. December 11, 2012, “Time to End the Cuba Embargo”, http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/time-end-cuba-embargo
This systematic attempt to destroy the Cuban people constitutes a genocidal policy
Cabrera 13
(Ángel Guerra Cabrera a Cuban journalist, a correspondent for La Jornada .24 October 2013 “An Act of Genocidefor which Obama Must Answer” http://watchingamerica.com/News/224816/an-act-of-genocide-which-obama-must-answer-for/)
Placing blame on the Cuban regime is a psychological defense mechanism used to evade responsibility for an ongoing genocide. WE have a responsibility to accept these
Simons, former chief editor at the National Computing Centre, 97(Geoff Leslie, The Scourging of Iraq : Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice, p. 210)
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 & 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]
Cuban Embargo Aff-Relations AdvantageRelations Advantage
Cuban Embargo Aff-Relations Advantage--Lifting the embargo would normalize relations with CubaLifting the embargo would normalize relations with Cuba
Tisdall 13 (Simon Tisdall, staff writer Guardian, 5 March 2013, “Death of Hugo Chávez brings chance of fresh start for US and Latin America”,http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/05/hugo-chavez-dead-us-latin-america/print
Cuban Embargo Aff-Relations Advantage--No offense – the embargo has repeatedly failed to liberalize Cuban governance and solidifies support for regime hardlinersNo offense – the embargo has repeatedly failed to liberalize Cuban governance and solidifies support for regime hardliners
Bandow 12 (Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a former special assistant to former US president Ronald Reagan. December 11, 2012, “Time to End the Cuba Embargo”, http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/time-end-cuba-embargo
Cuban Embargo Aff-Relations Advantage--Steps have been taken, but only lifting the embargo is keySteps have been taken, but only lifting the embargo is key
Creamer 11 (Robert Creamer, political organizer and strategist for four decades, 1/18/11, “Changes in U.S. Cuba Policy Good First Step -- But It's Time to Normalize Relations”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/changes-in-us-cuba-policy_b_810161.html
Cuban Embargo Aff-Relations Advantage--Normalized relations with Cuba are key to broader Latin American relationsNormalized relations with Cuba are key to broader Latin American relations
Perez 10 (David A. Perez, J.D. Yale Law School. Working with Koh former Dean of Yale Law and Legal Advisor to the State Department, “America'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
Cuban Embargo Aff-Relations Advantage--Latin American relations are on the brink – the US must act nowLatin American relations are on the brink – the US must act now
Shifter 12 [Michael Shifter, 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]
Cuban Embargo Aff-Relations Advantage--Hemispheric relations is key to solving organized crimeHemispheric relations is key to solving organized crime
Brookings 8 (The Brookings Institution. November. Rethinking. U.S.–Latin American Relations: A Hemispheric Partnership for a Turbulent World http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2008/1124_latin_america_partnership.aspx)
Cuban Embargo Aff-Relations Advantage--We’re at the tipping point – stopping Latin American drug trade is key to cutting off Global supply chainsWe’re at the tipping point – stopping Latin American drug trade is key to cutting off Global supply chains
Baker 8 (Roger, "The Big Business of Organized Crime in Mexico," Stratfor, February 13,http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/big_business_organized_crime_mexico)
Cuban Embargo Aff-Relations Advantage--Organized crime makes nuclear and CBW warfare inevitable – outweighs the risk of state-state warfareOrganized crime makes nuclear and CBW warfare inevitable – outweighs the risk of state-state warfare
CSIS 9 (CEnter for Strategic and International Studies, "Revolution 6 - Conflict," Global Strategy Institute," gsi.csis.org/index.php?Itemid=59&id=30&option=com_content&task=view)
Cuban Embargo Aff-Relations Advantage--U.S. leadership prevents great power wars.U.S. leadership prevents great power wars.
Khalilzad, former US ambassador to the UN, 2011
(Zalmay, “The Economy and National Security,” February 8, Online: http://www.conservativesforamerica.com/national-review/the-economy-and-national-security]
Cuban Embargo Aff-Advantage 1: EconomyAdvantage 1: Economy
Cuban Embargo Aff-Advantage 1: Economy--The United States maintains an embargo that bars nearly all economic activity with CubaThe United States maintains an embargo that bars nearly all economic activity with Cuba
Guzmán, Emmy award winning journalist, 2013
(Sandra, “Jay-Z and Beyoncé's trip to Cuba isn't the problem, the embargo is,” CNN, May 8, Online:http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/07/opinion/guzman-beyonce-jay-z-cuba/index.html)
Cuban Embargo Aff-Advantage 1: Economy--Failure to engage Cuba threatens economic collapse.Failure to engage Cuba threatens economic collapse.
Ashby, Senior Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 2013
(Ashby, "Preserving Stabilty in Cuba after Normalizing Relations with the United States - The Importance of Trading with State-Owned Enterprises," Council on Hemispheric Affairs, March 29, Online:www.coha.org/preserving-stability-in-cuba-timothy-ashby/)
Cuban Embargo Aff-Advantage 1: Economy--Cuban instability causes Latin American instabilityCuban instability causes Latin American instability
Gorrell 5 (Tim, Lieutenant Colonel, “CUBA: THE NEXT UNANTICIPATED ANTICIPATED STRATEGIC CRISIS?” 3/18,http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA433074
Cuban Embargo Aff-Advantage 1: Economy--Latin American instability promotes terrorism, human rights violence, and regional escalation.Latin American instability promotes terrorism, human rights violence, and regional escalation.
Manwaring, adjunct professor of international politics at Dickinson, 2005
(Max, “Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, Bolivarian Socialism, and Asymmetric Warfare,” October, Online:http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub628.pdf)
Cuban Embargo Aff-Advantage 1: Economy--That causes global warThat causes global war
Rochlin 94 (James,. Professor of Political Science at Okanagan University College. “Discovering the Americas: the evolution of Canadian foreign policy towards Latin America,” p. 130-131)

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