Chairman. I thank the gentleman for yielding. As the ranking Republican on the African Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. our information is that between 8.000 and 10.000 Cubans are now socalled naturalized citizens of Angola. Therefore. the number of Cubans officially is still around 35.000. but the real number is closer to 43.000. 44.000. or 45.000. The real issue is should the taxpayers of America subsidize a loan to foreign countries at under 10 percent interest when the farmers of this country cannot get a loan for 121/. and the country we are subsidizing is a Communist country that has a residency of 35.000 Cuban troops who are loaned to the government and the very corporation essentially paying $1.000 per Cuban mercenary per month to Castro to keep them there. I do not think the American taxpayers if they really knew the details of this issue would even remotely in a stretch of distorted argument of imagination agree with this type of amendment. I thank the gentleman for yielding. because that is the crux of the issue. Should we as Americans or should we not subsidize 35.000 Cuban troops and another 8.000 socalled naturalized Cuban citizens to persecute the people of Angola. That really is the issue.
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