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The Audio Long Read

Guatemala’s baby brokers: how thousands of children were stolen for adoption

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

From the 1960s, baby brokers persuaded often Indigenous Mayan women to give up newborns while kidnappers ‘disappeared’ babies. Now, international adoption is being called out as a way of covering up war crimes. By Rachel Nolan. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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Guadalas baby brokers,

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how thousands of children were stolen for adoption, by Rachel Nolan.

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In 2009, Dolores Priat went looking for her birth mother.

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A softly spoken woman with a bob haircut and glasses, Priat had been adopted as a five-year-old from

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Guatemala by a Belgian family in 1984.

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