He said there was no mechanism, financial or otherwise, to assist Chilean adoptees in their efforts to visit their home country. He said he sold a truck to pay for his family’s plane tickets and other expenses.

THIS is unfortunate. There should be a mechanism to allow these families to reconnect.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Forty-two years ago, hospital workers took Maria Angelica Gonzalez’ son from her arms right after birth and later told her he had died.

And I learned in the last few months that I have a mama and I have four brothers and a sister,” Thyden said in the interview from Ashburn, Virginia, where he works as a criminal defense attorney representing “people who look like me” who cannot afford a lawyer.

The child-trafficking coincided with many other human rights violations that took place during the 17-year reign of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who on Sept. 11, 1973, led a Chilean coup to overthrow Marxist President Salvador Allende.

Other nonprofit organizations are doing similar work, including Hijos y Madres del Silencio in Chile and Connecting Roots in the United States.

Nos Buscamos has been partnering for two years with genealogy platform MyHeritage, which provides free at-home DNA testing kits for distribution to Chilean adoptees and suspected victims of child trafficking in Chile.

Thyden also met with Juan Gabriel Valdes, the Chilean ambassador to the United States, to seek government recognition of the pervasiveness of the adoption scheme.

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That cat’s a chonker.

Unfortunately this sort of stuff continues to happen, just with different countries

Of course the child was taken to America. No wonder countries are explicitly banning Americans from adopting from them.

Thankfully they managed to find eachother. I hope many others can find their families too.

I don’t know why my brain couldn’t wrap the meaning of the title. I asked myself what’s a birth hug?

I hug Chilean mothers all the time and u don’t hear me bragging about it smh