US News & World Reports
One of the benefits of this topic for NFA-LD is that US-Cuban relations are in the news all the time. While that may complicate the debate by changing the political landscape all the time it also keeps the debate fresh and interesting!
Here is an article from US News & World report on Obama’s approach to Cuba.
This is a nice card that you can use in many many debates – both as a defense on inherency for some cases and an attack on inherency in others – remember, NFA-LD is supposed to be on stock issues. If you can win inherency you should win the round!
Meanwhile, expectations are running high both in Cuba and in the United States for a policy shift under incoming President Barack Obama. He has not supported removing or easing the embargo itself—a bold step that Obama says would be taken only if Havana “begins opening Cuba to meaningful democratic change.” But he is calling for rolling back Bush’s steps in 2004 and 2005 to tighten up on Cuban-American travel and remittances. And he has said he is open to the possibility of meeting with Raúl Castro without preconditions—a posture that Castro has taken recently as well.
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