Mitt's Classy Friends: Fascists, Ruthless Murderers, Drug Launders & Bebe Rebozo (Remember him?)

[kpete]

In 2007, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=77265 Romney gave a speech filled with his usual blather: "Jimmy Carter told us that our problems were the fault of the American people..." (No he didn't. No politician would ever say that. Romney must think his listeners are rubes.) Toward the end of the speech, the Mittster listed the guys who helped to get Bain Capital going:

My partners were Ricardo Poma, Miguel Duenas, Pancho Soler, Frank Kardonski, and Diego Ribandinarea.

We have already discussed Poma. He was one of the founders of the fascist ARENA party of Roberto D'Aubuisson -- a party that ran the death squads which ruthlessly murdered anyone who challenged the oligarchy's control. The CIA aided -- arguably controlled -- the death squads.
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/death_squads1.htm#El

Miguel Duenas hailed from another of the 14 families; in fact, the Duenas clan may have been the worst thing ever to happen to El Salvador. It turns out that Miguel Duenas -- I presume that we're dealing with the same fellow -- ran the Banco Commericial of El Savador, which determined which farmers would and would not get credit. A nice little arrangement, this was; the Duenas family used it to control a massive share of the country's cotton and coffee production. In a country where small farmers had once been allowed to own and work their own land, the Duenas clan expropriated their fields and reduced the farmers to near-slavery. The National Guard kept the serfs in line.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1NpLRm5YJIC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=miguel+duenas+salvador+Banco+Comercial+of+El+Salvador&source=bl&ots=lnJCFfNc_i&sig=UUvEl7GwK7aNn5Mwt_LSesUgsws&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vuL-T6a2HIbY6gH4suHbBg&ved=0CFIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=miguel%20duenas%20salvador%20Banco%20Comercial%20of%20El%20Salvador&f=false

One of the most interesting names on our list is the late Frank Kardonski. Born in Panama, he created the Panaminian Stock Exchange, owned Tower Bank, and did much to promote Panama as a place of foreign investment. Of course, during this period (the 1980s), Panama became a haven for anyone hoping to launder drug loot.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/03/2729982/banker-businessman-frank-kardonski.html

Here's the bit I like best:

In 1990, Kardonski’s family bought Key Biscayne Bank from Charles “Bebe” Rebozo, a longtime Key Biscayne resident and longtime friend of former President Richard Nixon.

Bebe Rebozo was the president's hideously mobbed up pal, and his bank was a notorious haven for mafia money. Is the bank still used for such purposes? I don't know. Perhaps readers in Florida can tell me more.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKrebozo.htm

Much More:
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2012/07/bain-romney-cia-and-god-help-us-howard.html

[patrice]

1. big! phat! K&R!

[DCKit]

2. Thank you. My S.O. is Salvadorean and this will be all over the place by tomorrow night.

Despite the differences among those of El Salvador and the rest of C.A., this will have pervaded the entire community over the weekend. The only support Rmoney will have left is that of the Cuban Nationalists.

Thanks Willard. You're doing a splendid job.

[freshwest]

3. Vote for Romney to bring back human sacrifice officially.

[dreamnightwind]

4. Thanks for this OP! Good stuff. - nt