Romney's Death Squad Ties: Bain Launched With Funds From Oligarchs Behind Salvadoran Murders

DemocracyNow.org - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is facing new scrutiny over revelations he founded the private equity firm Bain Capital with investments from Central American elites linked to death squads in El Salvador. After initially struggling to find investors, Romney traveled to Miami in 1983 to win pledges of $9 million, 40 percent of Bain's start-up money. Some investors had extensive ties to the death squads responsible for the vast majority of the tens of thousands of deaths in El Salvador during the 1980s. We're joined by Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim, who connects the dots in his latest story, "Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads." "There's no possible way that anybody in 1984 could check out these families -- which was the term that [Romney's campaign] used -- and come away convinced that this money was clean," Grim says.

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[cmfluteguy]

The US professional soldiers all work for the military industrial death squad known as the US military.

America is a military dictatorship as long as we keep spouting "support the troops".

The troops are hired guns that are paid to kill people because the American public supports that.

[dalecs47]

Romney did business with thugs and killers? Why am I not surprised? 

[Badrol HISHAM SHAH HAJI YAACOB]

Hey, Anyone heard of the Phantom Cash System? (do a Google Search) Ive listened to a lot of great stuff about it and my pal made a lot of money with it!

[NUTCASE71733]

HANG ROMNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sana1999]

Romney you have my people blood in your hand.

[Deborah Gray]

Obama is angel compared to the devil evil acts of Romney!!!! Really listen to Romneys own words. He admits taking millions of investors from death squads in El Salvador....I can not believe we don't deport him out of this country!!! How many more evil secrets is he hiding!!!

[CaP 10 M0rgan]

This family's were and are connected To THE DEATH SQUAD!!! They didn't Kill one person They kill Thousands Just like Adolf Hitler

[kgarcia14]

Hey Romney! Thanks for fucking up our country!

[Chip Block]

If Rape is Rape then Evil is Evil no lesser all complicite, No jail for the wicked only the aware that dissent. Which means if you vote the lesser evil in we are still lead by evil

[rafyselles]

Aqui tienen la pelicula onebigtorrent . org/torrents/14817/Romero-1989­-assassination-of-Bishop-Oscar­-Romero-El-Salvador-1980

Otra pelicula del mismo tema en español onebigtorrent . org/torrents/14830/El-cielo-ab­ierto-2011-Eng-subs

[Jet Kimchrea]

great info, i wish i had the transcript so i can just click speech to listen to, cause the constant...studder was painful. No offense, great video.