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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
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