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Editorial: the Desperate and Silent Cry of the Children of Chile

Summary by Canal Abierto
Canal Abierto During the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from 1973 to 1990, thousands of babies were stolen from their biological mothers and sold for adoption, mainly foreign couples from the United States and Europe. In Chile, they are known as “the children of silence.” Until 2022, at least 50,000 children were wanted in Chile who would have been handed over for adoption in an irregular manner, according to estimates of the foundat…
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Canal Abierto During the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from 1973 to 1990, thousands of babies were stolen from their biological mothers and sold for adoption, mainly foreign couples from the United States and Europe. In Chile, they are known as “the children of silence.” Until 2022, at least 50,000 children were wanted in Chile who would have been handed over for adoption in an irregular manner, according to estimates of the foundat…

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Canal Abierto broke the news in on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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