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Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

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Files in Guatemala’s Historical Archive of the National Police. Photo by Luis Soto.

In the Best Interest of the Child

A new book gets inside Guatemala’s international adoption industry and the complicated context of deciding a child’s welfare.

by Rachel Nolan, Erin Siegal McIntyre via Guernica on January 16, 2024

A baby awaiting adoption near Guatemala City.

Guatemala’s Baby Brokers: How Thousands of Children Were Stolen For Adoption

Baby brokers often tricked Indigenous Mayan women into giving up newborns; kidnappers took others. International adoption is now seen as a cover for war crimes.

by Rachel Nolan via The Guardian on January 4, 2024

Police and bystanders at night.

Do Cartels Exist?

A revisionist view of the drug wars.

by Rachel Nolan via Harper’s on June 20, 2023

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