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News
2026
- UN experts link Guatemala’s attorney-general to illegal adoptoins, The Straights Times, February 17, 2026
2025
- Belgian woman, 82, accused of abducting children and placing them for adoption as ‘orphans’, Brussels Times, September 29, 2025 (also Belgium)
2019
- Destined for Export: The troubled legality of Guatemalan adoptions, Harper’s, April 2019
- Staffer’s search for birth mom reveals dark history of Guatemalan adoption. Berkeley News, July 9, 2019
- Guatemala’s anti-corruption commission is ending, but the fight will go on, Atlantic Council, August 15, 2019
- A painful truth: Guatemalan adoptees learn they were fraudulently given away. NBC, December 8, 2019
2018
- Saviors, Scandal, and Representation: Dominant Media Narratives Around Human Trafficking in International Adoption, Shuster Institute, Journal of Human Trafficking, January 10, 2018
2017
- Fairy godmother or child trafficker? An American woman stands trial in Guatemala.The World, April 26, 2017
- Guatemalan Kidnapping / American Adoption: The Karen Monahan Story, Huffington Post, December 6, 2017
2016
- For many U.S. adoptees from Guatemala, a complicated legacy. Orange County Register/Associated Press, September 7, 2015
2015
- For many U.S. adoptees from Guatemala, a complicated legacy. Orange County Register/Associated Press, September 7, 2015
- Sisters, charities care for the abandoned children of Guatemala, Global Sisters Report, November 11, 2015
2014
- Judge Who Facilitated Guatemala Illegal Adoptions Finally Removed. InSight Crime, August 5, 2014
2011
- Adoption Scandal: The Lost Children Of Guatemala, World Crunch/Les Temps, July 28, 2011
- Guatemala judge: U.S. couple must return baby, CBS News, August 4, 2011
- Guatemalan Girl Stuck in Gut-Wrenching Adoption Scandal, Color Lines, August 12, 2011
2009
- Guatemala Adoption Fraud May Hit U.S. CBS News, March 11, 2009
- Guatemala pushes for DNA tests of kids adopted in U.S.Reuters, December 11, 2009
2008
- Adoption Agency Accused Of Extortion, Courthouse News Service, November 13, 2008
- Adoption-seeking US couple helped bare Guatemalan scandal Tuscon.com, November 23, 2008
2007
- Illegal Guatemalan foster home raid finds 46 babies. Reuters, August 11, 2007
- Guatemala children ‘rescued. ‘Al Jazeera, August 12, 2007
- Guatemala adoption centre scandal, Al Jazerra, September 27, 2007
- Did I Steal My Daughter?, Mother Jones, November/December 2007
2006
- Baby Hotel: The Gateway to Guatemalan Adoption, worldpresss.org, October 9, 2006
- Guatemala System Is Scrutinized as Americans Rush In to Adopt. New York Times, November 5, 2006
2004
- Officials: 3 Moms Sold Their Babies, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, December 19, 2003
2000
- Adoption and the Rights of the Child in Guatemala by ILPEC Guatemala, 2000
Videos
In a landmark case in March 2018, Osmin Ricardo Tobar Ramirez became the first Guatemalan adoptee to win against the state of Guatemala for child trafficking. Through his adoption, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights discovered a multi-level business of doctors, midwives, nurses, lawyers, social workers, hoteliers, and judicial authorities that had orchestrated his and up to 35,000 fellow Guatemalan adoptions between the year of 1990 and 2007. Read the full story here (Facebook) And watch the video!
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