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Romney started Bain with Central American death squad money

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I know how absurd that sounds, but it is true.

Amongst the founding investors in Bain were the Salaverria family, Francisco de Sola, Herbert Arturo de Sola, Ricardo Poma and the Regalado-Dueñas family. Romney flew down to meet the five of them together and secured 40% of Bain's start up capital from them. They continued to invest regularly and remain one of Bain's largest shareholders today.

All five of them were from El Salvador and all five of them were financial backers of the death squads operated by the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) in El Salvador. ARENA, for anybody who doesn't remember, was the brutal ultra-right-wing military junta that controlled El Salvador from 1989 to 2009. Human Rights Watch, El Salvador's post ARENA Human Rights Commission, and the UN documented over 35,000 incidents of ARENA death squads murdering civilians in El Salvador. In many cases ARENA used of torture and rape. ARENA was involved in a series of political assassinations, including the president of El Salvador who they seized power by killing.

All of these killings occurred shortly before Romney began working with them, or while they were working together.

Human Rights Watch identified the six people who provided the primary funding for the death squads and two of them are amongst Bain's initial founding investors and the three other El Salvadorean Bain investors also had major ties to ARENA and provided at least some funding for the death squads.

Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads
 
Perhaps it would be nice if Romney had a few death squads working for him.

this crap should be in the conspiracy tin foil forum.
 
Obama murders Afghani children every day. So that makes them even.

Good grief©
 
Perhaps it would be nice if Romney had a few death squads working for him.

this crap should be in the conspiracy tin foil forum.

Pretty sure HuffPo wouldn't have reported this had they not been able to back up their reporting with sources and evidence.
 
Perhaps it would be nice if Romney had a few death squads working for him.

this crap should be in the conspiracy tin foil forum.

It's not a conspiracy theory kiddo. It is true. They're still listed as investors on the Bain tax forms. They did press releases naming them as investors. There are UN and Human Rights Watch reports spanning 15 years citing them as being amongst the main people responsible for the death squads. How is that a conspiracy theory?
 
Pretty sure HuffPo wouldn't have reported this had they not been able to back up their reporting with sources and evidence.

its irrelevant. Its like those morons who claim that the Bush family invested in nazi businesses
 
It's not a conspiracy theory kiddo. It is true. They're still listed as investors on the Bain tax forms. They did press releases naming them as investors. There are UN and Human Rights Watch reports spanning 15 years citing them as being amongst the main people responsible for the death squads. How is that a conspiracy theory?

tell me what relevance this has other than moon bat lefties appealing to moon battery hatred of Romney.

how does this matter? I am sure I could link Obama's father the the MAU MAU atrocities if I wanted to make the effort
 
tell me what relevance this has other than moon bat lefties appealing to moon battery hatred of Romney.

how does this matter?

Well, there is really only one thing Romney has to recommend him- is business experience. The image of a hard working job creator powering our economy.

Except it turns out that Bain was actually just a chop shop that destroyed companies, fired people, and sent jobs overseas to suck money out of the nation's economy for their own profits.

And 60% of that profit turns out to have been funneled into Romney's tax evasion scheme.

Now it turns out that the other 40% was being funneled into ultra right wing death squads in El Salvador.

Not exactly turning out to be quite the strength people first hoped is it?
 
Well, there is really only one thing Romney has to recommend him- is business experience. The image of a hard working job creator powering our economy.

Except it turns out that Bain was actually just a chop shop that destroyed companies, fired people, and sent jobs overseas to suck money out of the nation's economy for their own profits.

And 60% of that profit turns out to have been funneled into Romney's tax evasion scheme.

Now it turns out that the other 40% was being funneled into ultra right wing death squads in El Salvador.

Not exactly turning out to be quite the strength people first hoped is it?

Your argument is based on moronic premise

there are dozens of reasons to recommend Romney over the complete failure and affirmative action poster child that occupies the oval office now

your description of Bain is hysterical far left moon battery
 
tell me what relevance this has other than moon bat lefties appealing to moon battery hatred of Romney.

how does this matter? I am sure I could link Obama's father the the MAU MAU atrocities if I wanted to make the effort

Doing business with people that run death squads major hmmmm
 
Doing business with people that run death squads major hmmmm

for that to matter you would have to prove that Romney knew that at the time it is relevant
 
It's not a conspiracy theory kiddo. It is true. They're still listed as investors on the Bain tax forms. They did press releases naming them as investors. There are UN and Human Rights Watch reports spanning 15 years citing them as being amongst the main people responsible for the death squads. How is that a conspiracy theory?

Yeah! And, Obama was born in Kenya, too.
 
Yeah! And, Obama was born in Kenya, too.

The difference is that there is proof for one, not the other. :) Want to become a birther? ;)
 
The difference is that there is proof for one, not the other. :) Want to become a birther? ;)

We were told there's proof that Bush knew about 9/11, before it happened, too. Trufer alert anyone?

Ultimately, this death squad bull**** has about as much credibility as the birfers and the trufers.
 
tell me what relevance this has other than moon bat lefties appealing to moon battery hatred of Romney.

how does this matter? I am sure I could link Obama's father the the MAU MAU atrocities if I wanted to make the effort

Just so you know, Obama's father wasn't a Kikuyu (Mau Mau). He was a Luo. They're two different tribes. Also, you'll have a hard time making a case that "Mau Mau atrocities" weren't in retaliation for the outright genocide conducted by the British in colonial Kenya.
 
We were told there's proof that Bush knew about 9/11, before it happened, too. Trufer alert anyone?

Oh? I argued Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened? Where? ;)

Ultimately, this death squad bull**** has about as much credibility as the birfers and the trufers.

You're lying again. Why must you lie in order to argue anything?
 
Just so you know, Obama's father wasn't a Kikuyu (Mau Mau). He was a Luo. They're two different tribes. Also, you'll have a hard time making a case that "Mau Mau atrocities" weren't in retaliation for the outright genocide conducted by the British in colonial Kenya.

he also was allied with Kenyatta for a while. And the Mau Mau's were mainly Kikuyu for sure but the anti British movement transcended Kenyatta's movement and tribal base. I knew the guy who was the spearhead of the military action that put down the may mau. the stuff the mau mau did was disgusting. What he did to break the movement was almost as bad. but basically if you had a position of power in the post British Kenyan government, you had sucked up to Kenyatta. Its why the toughest tribe in Kenya was discriminated against by the Kikuyu dominated government.

I met a guy herding cattle near Ambecelli park. He was Masai. He spoke to me in a British accent. He had graduated with top honors from Cambridge. Because he was Masai he could not get a government job. So he said he'd rather be a prince among his own people than a butt boy of the Kenyatta government


The guy I knew was attacked by poachers. He had the VC and had served under Montgomery. He killed the poachers and turned their rifles and poached ivory into the police. Turns out the guns were registered to Madame Kenyatta's private guard. The Chief of police told the man we hunted with that "we can no longer guarantee your safety in Kenya Captain Smith".

so he moved to Pretoria. He had uncovered a major scandal
 
Oh? I argued Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened? Where? ;)

I never said you did.



You're lying again. Why must you lie in order to argue anything?

Oh, wait, are you now saying that Bush knew about 9/11 before hand? Are you ready to condemn Obama for being suck buddies with an admitted terrorist and murderer?
 
he also was allied with Kenyatta for a while.

Yes, and Kenyatta is seen as a hero by most Kenyans as the national narrative is that he fought to liberate the country from the British. I'm not really sure what it is you're getting at. That Obama's father having an association with a Kenyan national hero and movement that is seen as a positive by anti-colonialist is a bad thing?
 
I never said you did.

So then who are you calling a truther?

Oh, wait, are you now saying that Bush knew about 9/11 before hand? Are you ready to condemn Obama for being suck buddies with an admitted terrorist and murderer?

No. I'm saying that you're lying in saying that there is no truth to the Romney-death squads claims when there clearly is evidence. Quit your straw man arguments and lying. :)
 
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So then who are you calling a truther?



No. I'm saying that you're lying in saying that there is no truth to the Romney-death squads claims when there clearly is evidence. Quit your straw man arguments and lying. :)

I didn't call anyone a trufer, but you sure are getting defensive about it. :rofl
 
I didn't call anyone a trufer, but you sure are getting defensive about it. :rofl

I take offense to brand name forum liars making assertions about me that aren't true.
 
Moderator's Warning:
Both of you, drop it and move on. You are both headed to an early exit from the thread.
 
Some more details:

• In 1984, Robert White, former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, named two Salaverria brothers—Julio and Juan Ricardo—as having directly funded death squads.

• Francisco de Sola and his cousin, Herbert Arturo de Sola, also invested early in Bain. Two other members of family were "limited partners." Team Romney refused to tell the reporters who those two were. They financially backed D'Aubisson's ARENA party.

• Orlando de Sola had never-proved ties to death squads. He denies ties. But even the Romney campaign admits he did.

• Ricardo Poma became one of the three members of the Bain Capital investment committee. The Poma family helped finance ARENA.

• The Regalado-Dueñas family and the Alvarez families were leading supporters of ARENA. "Arturo Dueñas 'regularly supplied' the head of an ARENA-affiliated 'paramilitary unit ... with a variety of official Salvadoran documents," according to the CIA. "Paramilitary unit" being a euphemism for death squad.

Daily Kos: Families of Bain Capital's original investors had ties with El Salvador's infamous death squads
 
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