2012-08-08 — huffingtonpost.com
You just can't make this stuff up --
While they were on the lookout for investments in the United States, members of some of these prominent families -- including the Salaverria, Poma, de Sola and Dueñas clans -- were also at the time financing, either directly or through political parties, death squads in El Salvador. The ruling classes were deploying the death squads to beat back left-wing guerrillas and reformers during El Salvador's civil war.The death squads committed atrocities on such a mass scale for so small a country that their killing spree sparked international condemnation.
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