(Based on a Guardian report. )
“For Sign lobbyists have done much more than meets the eye in making Spain and Portugal more palatable to the Administration. Some of the Latin- ,merican regimes have employed vast sums in rewarding registered agents who have helped to keep them in office by winning US support. Another example often cited in connection with foreign lobbying has been the sugar lobby, which last year successfully infimenced US legislation on sugar quotas that followed the boycott of Cuba's sugar. In this particular case lobbyists | were paid about half a million dollars in fees, and one agent stood to he | paid according to the size of the quota he obtained for the country he was ) roprosenting. ——— Se ee ee