El Salvador

Political, Search, Support

• Pro Busqueda
• Pro Busqueda Facebook
• Pro Busqueda (Enlgish)
• Mama Chila Foundation

 

Abductees

•  Abductions in Salvador fill demand: Adoption, New York Times, December 17, 1985
• Lost and found Salvadoran adoptees now being reclaimed, Akron Beacon Journal, August 2, 1996 (via Pound Pup Legacy)
• Salvadoran war orphan finds closure through DNA results and family reunion, UC Berkeley News, December 21, 2006
• A Daughter Stolen in Wartime Returns to El Salvador, New York Times. April 5, 2007
• El Salvador families seek adoption answers, BBC World Service, January 31, 2010
• In their DNA: Finding El Salvador’s Missing Children, Forensic Magazine, April 12m 2013
• ‘I knew in my heart she was alive’: Families in El Salvador are finally reunited with children abducted during the country’s civil war, Independent (UK), January 19, 2014
• A push is on in the US to reunite families torn apart by El Salvador’s civil war, UNICEF, August 28, 2014
• El Salvador families search for disappeared children decades after war, Seattle Globalist, April 2, 2015
• Salvadoran Human Rights Organization, Pro-Busqueda Attacked, Voices on the Border, November 15, 2015
• Amnesty: Urgent Action for Pro-Búsqueda, Unfinished Sentences, November 18, 2015,
• Case Records of Children ‘Disappeared’ Into Adoption Destroyed in El Salvador Attack, Re-wire, November 25, 2018
• Salvadorian Couple Adopted 3 Amerian Girls, Now they fear deportation, Coachella, CA Desert Sun, February 2, 2018
• She’s finding El Salvador’s lost children, OZY Media, May 28, 2018
• They Want to Steal My Daughter’: Deported Parents May Lose Kids to Adoption, AP Finds, Bloomberg, October 9m 2018
• Helping families reunite: The MamaChila Foundation, 2015-present,Roberto Nelson blog, nd

 

Videos

At survivors’ homes, we were always welcomed with open arms and plenty of delicious homemade tortillas, rice, and meat. Despite my limited Spanish abilities, a particular word always stood out: “esperanza” [hope].

• On Thursday, armed men sabotaged an El Salvadoran nonprofit dedicated to finding children who went missing three decades ago during a time when the United States was backing Salvador’s military government. The intruders broke into the Pro-Búsqeuda Association for Missing Children, destroyed four of its offices, and set fire to its archives.
  

Updated May 2019