Declared Dead – Illegal adoptions from Chile to Europe

Alejandro knew as a child that he was adopted. But it wasn't until he was in his early 30s that he found out the bitter truth: after he was born, his Chilean mother was told that her child had died. But the baby was placed for adoption in the Netherlands. Alejandro made every effort to learn Spanish well in order to piece together the fragments of his story.

Around 20,000 children from Chile were adopted abroad between the 1970s and the mid-1990s. It is only gradually becoming clear that most of these adoptions did not go smoothly.

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