Buying votes

If you had any plans of going to the Caribbeans to watch whales, forget it.

The Independent
Environmentalists in Japan say the drive to end the 1986 ban is backed
by a group of nationalist politicians who have invested more than
£54.9m in public money since 2000 on six Caribbean nations, despite
indifference at home to whaling.

Met andere woorden ze hebben heel de boel omgekocht.