Guatemala - more trafficking articles and stolen children cases
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public
1979 Jan 1
placement
facilitation
Susana Luarca (aka Susana de Umana aka Susana Maria Luarca Saracho de Umaña), Athanasios Kollias (Teo), Blanca Martinez (aka Blanca Eugenia Martinez Luna de Arce or Rosalina Garcia or Luz Maria Guerra), Clifford Phillips, Sandra Gonzalez, Milagro Del Carpio (aka Marcia del Carpio), Jorge Mario Sum Santiago (Jorge Sun), Susana Duarte (aka Susana Duarte González), Mireya de Gonzalez (lawyer), Lucila Hernández Oscal, Héctor Conrado Valdez, Roxana Marisol Mazariegos López, Alfonso Cacacho Ralda, Luis Roberto Aragón Hernández, Onelia Estrada Cordón, Martha Marilú Martínez Escobar aka Marta, Ruth Emilsa Alvarado Espana, Lucinda Bautiza (aka Lucinda Bautista), Dora Zavala (aka Dora Amanda Zavala Navas), Elia Berdúo Samayoa (judge), Oscar Portillo (aka Oscar Rene Portillo-Donis), Monica Janeth Ruiz González de Castañeda, Rosa Claudia Juárez, Gamaliel Sentes Luna, Aurora González Campo Menes, Lilian Ferrer de Letona
institution
One in every 100 Guatemalan children is adopted by an American family, the highest per capita adoption rate in the world, and 95 percent of all Guatemalan children who are adopted go to the U.S. The U.S. State Department says approximately 29,400 Guatemalan children have been adopted by Americans since 1990.
Photo of possibly stolen children from a raid July 18, 2007