2AC
Extinction
Toon 7, chair of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at CU-Boulder, et al., April 19, 2007,
“Atmospheric effects and societal consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts and acts of individual
nuclear terrorism,” online: http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/acp-7-1973-2007.pdf
To an increasing extent, people … present scenarios and physical outcomes.
2. Engagement includes removal of trade barriers
Haass and O’Sullivan, 2k - *Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings
Institution AND **a Fellow with the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (Richard and
Meghan, “Terms of Engagement: Alternatives to Punitive Policies” Survival,, vol. 42, no. 2, Summer 2000,
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/articles/2000/6/summer%20haass/2000survival.pdf
Architects of engagement strategies can … in the form of engagement.
Won't pass- dem opposition
Behsudi, 1/16/14 (Adam, “Trade leak feeds Democratic insurgency” Politico,
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/trade-leak-feeds-democratic-insurgency-102293.html
Democrats in Congress are fuming … on the bill on Thursday.
Poverty thumps the link
Mason 1-21 2014 White House Correspondent, Washington, DC (jeff, “Obama to highlight poverty-fighting agenda in Vatican visit”,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/21/us-usa-obama-europe-idUSBREA0K0UH20140121
(Reuters) - President
Barack Obama … on abortion, contraception and homosexuality.
Plan won’t trigger the link – Obama has already announced to pursue his own agenda
Sink 1-18 2014 (Justin, Obama: “'I'll act on my own' agenda”, The hill, http://thehill.com/blogs/blogbriefing-room/news/195869-obama-ill-act-on-my-own)
President Obama
vowed to use … broken immigration system,” Obama said.
Plan would be a political win for Obama
Hinderdael 11, (Klaas, “Obama's Cuba Policy and a Guideline for Improved Leadership”
BCJIA Editors, June 11, 2011, http://bcjournal.org/volume-14/breaking-the-logjam.html?printerFriendly=true)
In the wake of a markedly … voted for Senator John McCain.¶
If the plan causes a fight it solves the DA
Dickerson ’13 (John, Chief Political Correspondent at the Slate, Political Director of CBS News, Covered Politics for Time Magazine for 12 Years, Previous White
House Correspondent, Go for the Throat!, http://tinyurl.com/b7zvv4d)
The challenge for President Obama’s … it, at least temporarily, in disarray.
No civil war
Wong-Diaz, 6 – professor of law, political science and international relations at the City College of San
Francisco (Francisco, “CASTRO’S CUBA: QUO VADIS?”
December, http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub744.pdf
This monograph examines alternative scenarios … no intention to invade Cub
reforms have been fast in Cuba since ’08—should have triggered the link
Barcia, 12 – Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, as
well as Deputy Director at the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Leeds
(Michael, “Cuba's slow path to the future”, Aljazeera, 1/11/12,
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/01/20121883342630706.html)//EX
Leeds, United Kingdom - When the … of
even more new businesses.
Removing sanctions and allowing greater engagement makes the democratization process
stable
Lopez-Levy 11 – PhD candidate at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, coauthor of “Raul Castro and
the New Cuba” (Arturo, New America Foundation, May 2011,
http://newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/naf_all_cuba_reform_final.pdf)//EK
Diplomacy, not sanctions, must be … support such a course in Cuba.
Gradualism doesn’t solve --- Cuban leadership won’t end and embargo won’t fall
Sanchez ’12 Alex is a Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs where he focuses on geopolitics
and security issues. His analyses have appeared in numerous refereed journals like Cuban Affairs. “Cuba ends
2012 looking for oil and with Castro brothers still in power” – VOXXI – December 26th – ¶
http://www.voxxi.com/cuba-2012-oil-castro-brothers-power/#ixzz2V59ocrSu
The structure of the Cuban … due to congressional political barriers.
Latin America relations is vital to leadership in a multilateral context
Sabatini and Berger 2012 – editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly and senior director of policy at AS/COA,
policy associate at the AS/COA [Christopher and Ryan, “Why the U.S. can't afford to ignore Latin America”, June 13th,
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/13/why-the-u-s-cant-afford-to-ignore-latin-america//cc]
Speaking in Santiago, Chile, in … point for drugs heading north.
Lifting the embargo allows Cuba to export its seeds globally, ending the threat of monocultures
Grillo 11, several years as senior writer and associate editor for Johns Hopkins Public Health, the Bloomberg School’s magazine. She has also taught creative writing
and English composition at universities in Baltimore and New York, and before that she wrote and edited content for print publications and multimedia firms in New York. At
the CLF, Christine is focused on written communications projects stemming from CLF sponsored research, events and project activities. Christine is also involved with
managing social media outreach and developing content for the Livable Future Blog. (Christine, “ De Facto Organic”, John Hopkins Public health, Spring 2011
http://magazine.jhsph.edu/2011/spring/_pdf/jhsph_spring_2011_mag_150dpi.pdf)
Sometimes hunger is the mother … Cuban
products but allows exports.)
Extinction results without sustained genetic diversity
Fowler 90 Cary Fowler and Pat Mooney, Rural Advancement Fund International, Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity, 1990, p. ix
While many may ponder the … us to a rendezvous with extinction
—to the doorstep of … Africa, Latin America and Asia.
Our approach to the 1AC is valid
Owen ‘2
(David Owen, Reader of Political Theory at the Univ. of Southampton, Millennium Vol 31 No 3 2002 p. 655-7)
Commenting on the ‘philosophical turn’ … so a potentially vicious circle arises.
Market systems are best—they … because market systems reduce inequality
Wolf 03 Masters in Economics @ Oxford, a British journalist, widely considered to be one of the world’s most influential writers on economics. He is the associate
editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times [Martin, “The Morality of the Market”, Foreign Policy, Sept 1, 2003,
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2003/09/01/the_morality_of_the_market%5D///WNM
A sophisticated market economy works … and attitudes of its critics.
Neoliberalism spreads peace and prosperity—its sustainable and inevitable—this also defends
our epistemology and it’s specific to Latin America
Kilgour 2k – JD @ Toronto Law, crown attorney in northern Alberta to Canadian Cabinet minister, Kilgour ended his 27-year tenure in the Canadian House of
Commons as an Independent MP
(David, “Globalization For the Benefit of All,” http://www.david-kilgour.com/secstate/globali2.htm)
When your Secretary General asked … greater
sharing around the world.
The alternative is a joke—rejecting growth fails and it’s simply endless theorizing
Rose 12, Editor of Foreign Affairs, “Making Modernity Work”, Foreign Affairs, January/February
The central question of modernity … path. The much-ballyhooed "rise
1AR
Access to the US export market is key to the viability of the Cuban model
Kost, 4 – agricultural economist, Specialty Crops Branch, Economic Research. Service, US Department of
Agriculture (William, “CUBAN AGRICULTURE: TO BE OR NOT TO BE ORGANIC?”
http://www.ascecuba.org/publications/proceedings/volume14/pdfs/kost.pdf)
In addition to the above European markets, … production approaches are just not available.
Cuban ag Failing
Moses Patterson, 1-13-14
(http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=101220)
The lack of food in Cuba has little to do with the US embargo. Especially because food, like medicine sales, are expressly permitted under the embargo.
Even if there were not limitations to business between the two nations, Cuba … near destruction of the a once bountiful Cuban society.
Passing controversial policies boosts Obama’s political capital
Singer, 9 – Juris Doctorate candidate at Berkeley Law (Jonathon, “By Expending Capital, Obama Grows His Capital,” 3/3/2009,
http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/3/3/191825/0428)
Despite the country's struggling economy and …energy
reform to ending the war in Iraq.