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Protesters from the organisation Los Hijos y Madres del Silencio, meaning The Silent Children and Mothers, whose member say their children were stolen from them and adopted by Western couples stand outside the Court of Appeals in Santiago (Daily Mail)

2025

Chilean mother reunites with her twin daughters for the first time in 45 years, CNN, September 16, 2025
Foundation reunites children illegally adopted with biological parents United Press International, October 8, 2025

2021

A Chilean Adoptee intends to initiate the legal process after scandal. Adoptionland. org. January 1, 2021

‘I just needed to find my family’: the scandal of Chile’s stolen children, Guardian, January 26, 2021

2020

Minister Looks at Case of Stolen Children, SN.dk, September 14, 2020 (via Chilean Adoptees Worldwide
Children who Come from Afar. NACLA, November 20, 2020

2019

Sweden at Epicenter of Illegal Adoptions Scandal With Chilean Children, Sputnik, December 31, 2018
The stolen children: Hundreds’ of babies were taken from their mothers to be adopted in Sweden… through an agency later run by the man readying himself to become Prime Minister, Daily Mail, January 2, 2019
Thousands of Chilean children were ‘stolen from their mothers and trafficked to the US, UK and other Western nations for adoption’ during the Pinochet dictatorship, investigators say, Daily Mail, January 2, 2019

Araucanía records at least one thousand cases of illegal adoptions between the 70s and 80s, bibbiochile, January 11, 2019
They denounce Argentina and Chile in The Hague for Mapuche genocide, Telsur, April 19, 2019
A large group of women belonging to the Mapuche community are the main champions of this complaint. | Photo: EFE)
Chile’s Stolen Children Seek Justice Over Decades of Illegal Adoptions, The Wry Ronon, June 7, 2019
We want all adopters from Chile to be reviewed, Global Adoption News, nd.
2018

Over i 600 adoption records, at least one thousand cases of illegal adoptions between the 70s and 80sptions from Chile to Sweden investigated in ‘children of silence’ probe, The Local (Sweden), November 16, 2018

- Sweden at Epicenter of Illegal Adoptions Scandal With Chilean Children, Sputnik, December 31, 2018

2014

Chile’s ‘Children of Silence’ seek truth, CNN, October 31, 2014

Updated October 11, 2025