Chile struggles with stolen babies of the Pinochet dictatorship

Under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, thousands of Chilean children were adopted abroad without the consent of their biological families. A sprawling affair, which has occupied Chilean justice since 2018.

SantiagoSantiago(Chile).– It is a long tremor that is shaking Chile, a country that has been accustomed to earthquakes for almost ten years. The first shock dates back to April 19, 2014, when the independent media Ciper revealed the illicit adoptions of several children born in the 1980s. The facts reported in the article occurred in Santiago. In several hospitals in the capital, doctors declared dead around ten newborns, in reality given up for adoption, through a priest.