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2AC Harms – Iran: A/t - #3 “Iran is Peaceful” [2/2] 723) Venezuelan anti-Americanism is allowing Iranian terrorist groups to thrive. WALSER, 10 [Ray, PhD., senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation; “Hezbollah Terrorists On Our Southern Border,” 7/19, http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2010/07/hezbollah-terrorists-on-our-southern-border] More recently, Hezbollah seems to be finding convenient operating space in Venezuela. Hugo Chavez’s, Venezuela’s fiery, anti-American president, recently hosted Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Syria’s deep involvement in Lebanon, its border disputes with Israel and its backing of Hezbollah are of long-standing. In Caracas, Chavez and Assad reaffirmed a united front against common enemies: the U.S. and Israel. Doubtless, finding ways to advance Hezbollah’s power and influence without being caught was a topic of private conversation as well. Caracas is a hub for international anti-American activity and regular air flights link Venezuela with Syria and Iran. Venezuela is also becoming a hub for international drug traffickers, with shipments to Europe and West Africa rising dramatically. The latter market is especially worrisome, as the narcotics trade is destabilizing West Africa, helping make it a target of opportunity for Islamic extremists. 4) Iran is still actively supporting terrorism and needs Venezuelan assistance. WALSER, 10 [Ray, PhD., senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation; “State Sponsors of Terrorism: Time to Add Venezuela to the List,” 1/10, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/01/state-sponsors-of-terrorism-time-to-add-venezuela-to-the-list] Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism. Iran's involvement in the planning and financial support of terrorist attacks throughout the Middle East, Europe, and Central Asia had a direct impact on international efforts to promote peace, threatened economic stability in the Gulf, and undermined the growth of democracy. The Qods Force, an elite branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is the regime's primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists abroad. The Qods Force provided aid in the form of weapons, training, and funding to Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups, Lebanese Hezbollah, Iraq-based militants, and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. As the U.S. and the world have become increasingly wary of Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions, its support for terrorism, and its repression of its own people, Chávez has worked overtime to make Tehran his closest international partner. 2AC Harms – Democracy: A/t - #1 “Elections are Fair” [1/2] 731) Chavez’ regime destroyed democratic institutions in Venezuela, leaving behind unfair and opaque elections where the winner is determined before any votes are cast. His hand-picked successor won and no recounts were verified internationally. Extend our 1AC SULLIVAN evidence. 3) The Rule of Law is under attack in Venezuela. CHRISTY, 13 [Patrick, senior policy analyst at the Foreign Policy Initiative; “Obama Must Stand Up for Democracy in Post-Chavez Venezuela,” 03/15, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2013/03/15/after-chavez-us-must-encourage-democratic-venezuela] For over a decade, Chavez led ideologically-driven efforts to erode U.S. standing in Latin America and around the globe. The populist leader expanded Venezuela's ties with rogue states such as Cuba and Iran, aided and protected terrorist organizations such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and actively undermined the rule of law in Venezuela and throughout the Americas. In the Western Hemisphere alone, Chavez used record petrol prices to prop up anti-American socialist leaders, most notably in Bolivia, Cuba and Nicaragua. Chavez leaves behind a broken economy, a deeply divided nation and a dysfunctional government, all of which will take years—if not decades—to overcome. Venezuela is plagued with double-digit inflation, mounting budget deficits and rising levels of violence. While the OPEC nation maintains one of the world's largest geological oil reserves, crude exports—which account for roughly 45 percent of federal budget revenues—have declined by nearly half since 1999. The United States imports roughly one million barrels from Venezuela per day. 2AC Harms – Democracy: A/t - #1 “Elections are Fair” [2/2] 743) Every institution in Venezuela is falling apart, and perceptions of corruption are increasing. WALSER AND ZUCKERMAN, 13 [Ray, PhD., senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation; Jessica, Research Associate in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation, “Venezuela After Chavez: U.S. Should Rally to Democracy,” 3/06, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/03/venezuela-after-death-of-chavez-us-should-rally-to-democracy] Nonetheless, Chavez’s successor will face many challenges, including over-dependence on oil revenues and a comparatively stagnant oil industry starved of much-needed re-investment. High inflation, a recent currency devaluation, capital flight, food shortages, and extremely high levels of homicide and criminal violence will be handed down. National investment has been haphazard, and infrastructure has crumbled. Venezuelan society remains polarized, overly militarized, and ripe with corruption. A fall in oil prices or a debt crisis could send it into recession. From economic freedom to perceptions of corruption, Venezuela raced relentlessly toward the bottom in global rankings. 4) Venezuela’s economy is collapsing due to a failure of democracy. ROBERTS AND DAGA, 13 [James, Research Fellow for Economic Freedom and Growth in the Center for International Trade and Economics; Sergio, Visiting Senior Policy Analyst for Economic Freedom in Latin America at The Heritage Foundation; “Venezuela: U.S. Should Push President Maduro Toward Economic Freedom,” 04/15, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/04/venezuela-us-should-push-president-maduro-toward-economic-freedom] The foundations of economic freedom in Venezuela have crumbled. When Chavez took office in 1999, Venezuela scored 54 out of 100 possible points in The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal’s annual Index of Economic Freedom. Today, however, after 14 years of Chavez’s soft authoritarian populism, Venezuela merits a score of just 36 points. This nearly 20-point plunge is among the most severe ever recorded by a country in the history of the Index. Its 2013 rank—174th out of 179 countries—places Venezuela among the most repressed nations in the world. Venezuela’s dismal economic freedom score is reflected in statistics that translate into real-time hardship for Venezuelans, who must spend more of their incomes on higher prices for necessities—if they can find them on empty store shelves. There are scarcities of nearly all staple food and fuel products. In fact, according to the Banco Central of Venezuela’s (BCV) shortages index, Venezuela faces the most severe food shortages in four years. And what food is available comes at a price: Mary O’Grady reports in The Wall Street Journal that “over the past 10 years inflation in food and nonalcoholic beverages is 1,284%.” Financial disequilibrium in Venezuela is the result of a sharply widening fiscal deficit that reached almost 15 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) last year. Government control of the formerly independent BCV also contributed to a massive expansion of the money supply. There are anecdotal reports in Caracas of people paying as much as 23 bolívars for one U.S. dollar in the black market as of early April. The official rate is just 6.3 bolívars per dollar—and that is after a significant 32 percent devaluation in February. 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