US Citizen Taken During Pinochet Dictatorship Reunited with Chilean Mother After 35 Years
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US citizen taken during Pinochet dictatorship reunited with Chilean mother after 35 years
US citizen Kyle Adler, taken as a nine-month-old baby during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile, was reunited this year with his biological mother, Chilean national Ana María Navarrete, thirty-five years after the forced separation. The reunion, which took place on Valentine's Day at Santiago airport and was documented by the Associated Press news agency, illustrates the scale of a network of fraudulent adoptions that during the Chilean military regime (1973-1990) took more than twenty thousand children from poor and indigenous families, according to official estimates.
Kyle Adler discovered that he was the victim of illegal adoptions during Pinochet's dictatorship and, after years of searching and DNA testing, managed to embrace his biological mother for the first time.
Chilean Ana María experienced every parent's nightmare: her child was stolen and illegally adopted. Only after 35 years was she able to hold her son Kyle in her arms again. Chilean Ana María experienced every parent's nightmare: her child was stolen and illegally adopted. Only after 35 years was she able to hold her son Kyle [...]
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