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Old 10 August 2012, 04:39 PM
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Icon605 Romney founded Bain with Salvadoran money

Comment: I just read on FB that Mitt Romney founded Bain
Capital using money from financiers linked to El Salvadoran death squads.
I Googled the question and found some links that seemed to support.

Can you confirm?
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About $9 million came from rich Latin Americans, including powerful Salvadoran families living in Miami during their country's brutal civil war.
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At the time, U.S. officials were publicly accusing some exiles in Miami of funding right-wing death squads in El Salvador. Some family members of the first Bain Capital investors were later linked to groups responsible for killings, though no evidence indicates those relatives invested in Bain or benefited from it.
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