Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads

Democrats have no bottom.There is really no depth to which they will not sink. No low that is low enough.......this rotted sewage is what passes for discourse...it's disgraceful.

What are you talking about?

The "low" is starting a company with money from business people that supported death squads.

If this is true..it's pretty fucking bad.

I heard from a very reliable source, that you are a gay prostitute that shoves chickens up your ass...if that's true, it's pretty fucking bad. If it's not true, well fuck you anyway, the important part is to associate you with shoving chickens up your ass. Are you still beating your wife too? When did you stop abusing male children? Why were you sentenced to prison? How much of your families money did you lose from the degenerate gambling problem? Were you always an alcoholic?
 
Robmoney was a corporate raider who took start up capital from people who murdered their fellow citizens

The people who gave him money..more then likely didn't personally murder anyone.

They were business people that funneled money to counter revolutionaries. That's if these allegations bear out.

At least get it right.

contract killing is still murder
 
By Ryan Grim and Cole Stangler

In 1983, Bill Bain asked Mitt Romney to launch Bain Capital, a private equity offshoot of the successful consulting firm Bain & Company. After some initial reluctance, Romney agreed. The new job came with a stipulation: Romney couldn't raise money from any current clients, Bain said, because if the private equity venture failed, he didn't want it taking the consulting firm down with it.

When Romney struggled to raise funds from other traditional sources, he and his partners started thinking outside the box. Bain executive Harry Strachan suggested that Romney meet with a group of Central American oligarchs who were looking for new investment vehicles as turmoil engulfed their region.

Romney was worried that the oligarchs might be tied to "illegal drug money, right-wing death squads, or left-wing terrorism," Strachan later told a Boston Globe reporter, as quoted in the 2012 book "The Real Romney." But, pressed for capital, Romney pushed his concerns aside and flew to Miami in mid-1984 to meet with the Salvadorans at a local bank.

It was a lucrative trip. The Central Americans provided roughly $9 million -- 40 percent -- of Bain Capital's initial outside funding, the Los Angeles Times reported recently. And they became valued clients.

"Over the years, these Latin American friends have loyally rolled over investments in succeeding funds, actively participated in Bain Capital's May investor meetings, and are still today one of the largest investor groups in Bain Capital," Strachan wrote in his memoir in 2008. Strachan declined to be interviewed for this story.

When Romney launched another venture that needed funding -- his first presidential campaign -- he returned to Miami.

"I owe a great deal to Americans of Latin American descent," he said at a dinner in Miami in 2007. "When I was starting my business, I came to Miami to find partners that would believe in me and that would finance my enterprise. My partners were Ricardo Poma, Miguel Dueñas, Pancho Soler, Frank Kardonski, and Diego Ribadeneira."

Romney could also have thanked investors from two other wealthy and powerful Central American clans -- the de Sola and Salaverria families, who the Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe have reported were founding investors in Bain Capital.

While they were on the lookout for investments in the United States, members of some of these prominent families -- including the Salaverria, Poma, de Sola and Dueñas clans -- were also at the time financing, either directly or through political parties, death squads in El Salvador. The ruling classes were deploying the death squads to beat back left-wing guerrillas and reformers during El Salvador's civil war.

The death squads committed atrocities on such a mass scale for so small a country that their killing spree sparked international condemnation. From 1979 to 1992, some 75,000 people were killed in the Salvadoran civil war, according to the United Nations. In 1982, two years before Romney began raising money from the oligarchs, El Salvador's independent Human Rights Commission reported that, of the 35,000 civilians killed, "most" died at the hands of death squads. A United Nations truth commission concluded in 1993 that 85 percent of the acts of violence were perpetrated by the right, while the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, which was supported by the Cuban government, was responsible for 5 percent.

When The Huffington Post asked the Romney campaign about Bain Capital accepting funds from families tied to death squads, a spokeswoman forwarded a 1999 Salt Lake Tribune article to explain the campaign's position on the matter. She declined to comment further.

"Romney confirms Bain had investors in El Salvador. But, as was Bain's policy with any big investor, they had the families checked out as diligently as possible," the Tribune wrote. "They uncovered no unsavory links to drugs or other criminal activity."

Nobody with a basic understanding of the region's history could believe that assertion.

Obama started his campaign in the living room of a domestic terrorist. Wanna go there?
 
The people that gave Romney money to start Bain Capital were wealthy El Salvadorans who contributed money to the opposition when a socialistic government nationalized the coffee industry and seized their lands. To say that they funded death squads is a charge that is unsubstantiated by the Huffington Post. But what else is new? If you want to see yellow journalism at it's worst...then go to HuffPo.

Or, you could open up the HuffPo link and follow their live supporting links.
 
He should withdraw right away!!!

Why bother voting?

Give Osama.... er, Obama/Sotereo another four years of fuck ups.

All kidding aside -

President Romney sounds fucking good, doesn't it?
 
Democrats have no bottom.There is really no depth to which they will not sink. No low that is low enough.......this rotted sewage is what passes for discourse...it's disgraceful.

What are you talking about?

The "low" is starting a company with money from business people that supported death squads.

If this is true..it's pretty fucking bad.

I heard from a very reliable source, that you are a gay prostitute that shoves chickens up your ass...if that's true, it's pretty fucking bad. If it's not true, well fuck you anyway, the important part is to associate you with shoving chickens up your ass. Are you still beating your wife too? When did you stop abusing male children? Why were you sentenced to prison? How much of your families money did you lose from the degenerate gambling problem? Were you always an alcoholic?

You know Zander..there really is no reason for you to get so personal.

Seriously.
 
The people that gave Romney money to start Bain Capital were wealthy El Salvadorans who contributed money to the opposition when a socialistic government nationalized the coffee industry and seized their lands. To say that they funded death squads is a charge that is unsubstantiated by the Huffington Post. But what else is new? If you want to see yellow journalism at it's worst...then go to HuffPo.

That's what the "opposition" was involved in..

Death Squads.
 
What are you talking about?

The "low" is starting a company with money from business people that supported death squads.

If this is true..it's pretty fucking bad.

I heard from a very reliable source, that you are a gay prostitute that shoves chickens up your ass...if that's true, it's pretty fucking bad. If it's not true, well fuck you anyway, the important part is to associate you with shoving chickens up your ass. Are you still beating your wife too? When did you stop abusing male children? Why were you sentenced to prison? How much of your families money did you lose from the degenerate gambling problem? Were you always an alcoholic?

You know Zander..there really is no reason for you to get so personal.

Seriously.
I'm not getting personal. I am simply employing the same techniques that the Democrats are using. Is that wrong? Sorry that it bothers you. How was it you came to be brain damaged anyway? Was it your alcoholic mother drinking and smoking while pregnant? Or was it from the beatings you took at the hand of your heroin addicted father? Is you prostitute sister still collecting welfare? Did she finally beat the syphilis?
 
By Ryan Grim and Cole Stangler

In 1983, Bill Bain asked Mitt Romney to launch Bain Capital, a private equity offshoot of the successful consulting firm Bain & Company. After some initial reluctance, Romney agreed. The new job came with a stipulation: Romney couldn't raise money from any current clients, Bain said, because if the private equity venture failed, he didn't want it taking the consulting firm down with it.

When Romney struggled to raise funds from other traditional sources, he and his partners started thinking outside the box. Bain executive Harry Strachan suggested that Romney meet with a group of Central American oligarchs who were looking for new investment vehicles as turmoil engulfed their region.

Romney was worried that the oligarchs might be tied to "illegal drug money, right-wing death squads, or left-wing terrorism," Strachan later told a Boston Globe reporter, as quoted in the 2012 book "The Real Romney." But, pressed for capital, Romney pushed his concerns aside and flew to Miami in mid-1984 to meet with the Salvadorans at a local bank.

It was a lucrative trip. The Central Americans provided roughly $9 million -- 40 percent -- of Bain Capital's initial outside funding, the Los Angeles Times reported recently. And they became valued clients.

"Over the years, these Latin American friends have loyally rolled over investments in succeeding funds, actively participated in Bain Capital's May investor meetings, and are still today one of the largest investor groups in Bain Capital," Strachan wrote in his memoir in 2008. Strachan declined to be interviewed for this story.

When Romney launched another venture that needed funding -- his first presidential campaign -- he returned to Miami.

"I owe a great deal to Americans of Latin American descent," he said at a dinner in Miami in 2007. "When I was starting my business, I came to Miami to find partners that would believe in me and that would finance my enterprise. My partners were Ricardo Poma, Miguel Dueñas, Pancho Soler, Frank Kardonski, and Diego Ribadeneira."

Romney could also have thanked investors from two other wealthy and powerful Central American clans -- the de Sola and Salaverria families, who the Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe have reported were founding investors in Bain Capital.

While they were on the lookout for investments in the United States, members of some of these prominent families -- including the Salaverria, Poma, de Sola and Dueñas clans -- were also at the time financing, either directly or through political parties, death squads in El Salvador. The ruling classes were deploying the death squads to beat back left-wing guerrillas and reformers during El Salvador's civil war.

The death squads committed atrocities on such a mass scale for so small a country that their killing spree sparked international condemnation. From 1979 to 1992, some 75,000 people were killed in the Salvadoran civil war, according to the United Nations. In 1982, two years before Romney began raising money from the oligarchs, El Salvador's independent Human Rights Commission reported that, of the 35,000 civilians killed, "most" died at the hands of death squads. A United Nations truth commission concluded in 1993 that 85 percent of the acts of violence were perpetrated by the right, while the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, which was supported by the Cuban government, was responsible for 5 percent.

When The Huffington Post asked the Romney campaign about Bain Capital accepting funds from families tied to death squads, a spokeswoman forwarded a 1999 Salt Lake Tribune article to explain the campaign's position on the matter. She declined to comment further.

"Romney confirms Bain had investors in El Salvador. But, as was Bain's policy with any big investor, they had the families checked out as diligently as possible," the Tribune wrote. "They uncovered no unsavory links to drugs or other criminal activity."

Nobody with a basic understanding of the region's history could believe that assertion.
Obama started his campaign in the living room of a domestic terrorist. Wanna go there?
Sure, GOP hate radio tried that thoroughly discredited lie last election, how did that work for you then?????
 
I'd like to see the Hufferpost site go in front of a death squad..then maybe we could get some serious news on this board and get rid of the huffer trolls
 
By Ryan Grim and Cole Stangler

In 1983, Bill Bain asked Mitt Romney to launch Bain Capital, a private equity offshoot of the successful consulting firm Bain & Company. After some initial reluctance, Romney agreed. The new job came with a stipulation: Romney couldn't raise money from any current clients, Bain said, because if the private equity venture failed, he didn't want it taking the consulting firm down with it.

When Romney struggled to raise funds from other traditional sources, he and his partners started thinking outside the box. Bain executive Harry Strachan suggested that Romney meet with a group of Central American oligarchs who were looking for new investment vehicles as turmoil engulfed their region.

Romney was worried that the oligarchs might be tied to "illegal drug money, right-wing death squads, or left-wing terrorism," Strachan later told a Boston Globe reporter, as quoted in the 2012 book "The Real Romney." But, pressed for capital, Romney pushed his concerns aside and flew to Miami in mid-1984 to meet with the Salvadorans at a local bank.

It was a lucrative trip. The Central Americans provided roughly $9 million -- 40 percent -- of Bain Capital's initial outside funding, the Los Angeles Times reported recently. And they became valued clients.

"Over the years, these Latin American friends have loyally rolled over investments in succeeding funds, actively participated in Bain Capital's May investor meetings, and are still today one of the largest investor groups in Bain Capital," Strachan wrote in his memoir in 2008. Strachan declined to be interviewed for this story.

When Romney launched another venture that needed funding -- his first presidential campaign -- he returned to Miami.

"I owe a great deal to Americans of Latin American descent," he said at a dinner in Miami in 2007. "When I was starting my business, I came to Miami to find partners that would believe in me and that would finance my enterprise. My partners were Ricardo Poma, Miguel Dueñas, Pancho Soler, Frank Kardonski, and Diego Ribadeneira."

Romney could also have thanked investors from two other wealthy and powerful Central American clans -- the de Sola and Salaverria families, who the Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe have reported were founding investors in Bain Capital.

While they were on the lookout for investments in the United States, members of some of these prominent families -- including the Salaverria, Poma, de Sola and Dueñas clans -- were also at the time financing, either directly or through political parties, death squads in El Salvador. The ruling classes were deploying the death squads to beat back left-wing guerrillas and reformers during El Salvador's civil war.

The death squads committed atrocities on such a mass scale for so small a country that their killing spree sparked international condemnation. From 1979 to 1992, some 75,000 people were killed in the Salvadoran civil war, according to the United Nations. In 1982, two years before Romney began raising money from the oligarchs, El Salvador's independent Human Rights Commission reported that, of the 35,000 civilians killed, "most" died at the hands of death squads. A United Nations truth commission concluded in 1993 that 85 percent of the acts of violence were perpetrated by the right, while the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, which was supported by the Cuban government, was responsible for 5 percent.

When The Huffington Post asked the Romney campaign about Bain Capital accepting funds from families tied to death squads, a spokeswoman forwarded a 1999 Salt Lake Tribune article to explain the campaign's position on the matter. She declined to comment further.

"Romney confirms Bain had investors in El Salvador. But, as was Bain's policy with any big investor, they had the families checked out as diligently as possible," the Tribune wrote. "They uncovered no unsavory links to drugs or other criminal activity."

Nobody with a basic understanding of the region's history could believe that assertion.
Obama started his campaign in the living room of a domestic terrorist. Wanna go there?
Sure, GOP hate radio tried that thoroughly discredited lie last election, how did that work for you then?????

Well not only that..

Reagan and George HW Bush funded Osama Bin Laden. A foreign terrorist, when he was fighting the Russians.

Jeb Bush..got his dad George HW Bush to grant Orlando Bosch..another foreign terrorist, residency in the US and in effect..a pardon from blowing to smithereens a jet containing close to 100 people..killing them all.

That's the facts..jack.
 
This is just another "feather" in the Bishop's cap.

Let's see:

-Corporate Raider that engaged in dismantling or dramatically changing companies for personal profit.
-Engaged in business with Micheal Milken.
-As a youth and "merry prankster" engaged in cutting a classmate's hair and harassing others by dressing like a police officer.
-Protested for the draft, then went to France.
-Paid a tax rate lower then people who work for a living, while drawing an income from doing nothing and still engaging in tax avoidance by using off shore accounts and shell companies. And that's just gleened from 1 tax return.
-Has no idea about the state of the economy. Thinks "corporations are people, my friend" and likes to "fire people".
-Fondly remembers putting his dog on the roof.
-Has made money from companies that deal in aborted fetuses.
-Belongs to a religion that once held as doctrine, until the late 1970s, that minorities were cursed.
-Holds the notion that he saved the US auto industry, even though his advice was to let them die.

And now, has been found to be in collusion with business folks that funded blood thirsty death squads.

He's the perfect conservative candidate!
 

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