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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

Documents

Title Publication date
Stolen baby found in Guatemalan adoption system 2011 Jul 24
GIRL WITH A COUNTRY 2009 Nov 24
Burned by a baby broker 2009 Oct 14
Complaints increase of irregular adoptions 2009 May 27
Panel Physician Roberto Rivera and Aida Gutierrez share the same office #1404 2009 Apr 20
Require advance in processes for illegal adoptions and rape of children 2009 Apr 15
Nine Tots Rescued From Illegal Adoption in Guatemala 2009 Apr 12
Nine children in the adoption process, rescued from a clandestine home in Palin 2009 Apr 7
US DOS Update: Casa Quivira, Semillas de Amor and Santa Lucia de las Flores cases 2009 Mar 24
Orchid Cellmark Guatemala DNA Testing Application 2009 Jan 1
Lawsuit accuses adoption agency of racketeering, fraud 2008 Dec 28
USA families with failed adoption 2008 Nov 10
Turi et al v. Main Street, Heller, McClenaghan, Carpio 2008 Oct 28
Civil racketeering lawsuit filed against adoption 'facilitator' in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt 2008 Oct 20
Caught at the Embassy wanting to obtain visas for minors with false documentation 2008 Aug 15
Captured partners when processed visas for two children in the U.S. Embassy 2008 Aug 14
PGN dennounces 19 notaries 2008 Jul 24
Identifies hospitals in the trafficking of children 2008 Jun 25
Guatemalan mothers face agonizing decision 2008 Jun 18
Guatemala: the millionaire "business" of adoptions 2008 Jun 15
Girl with No Country 2008 Jun 15
Lawyers accused of involvement in illicit activities, leading the process of adoptions 2008 May 26
Guatemalan officials annul 15 pending adoptions to US couples for irregularities, fraud 2008 May 22
U.S. Adoptions Fueled by Guatemalan Kidnappings 2008 May 13
Adoptions: beyond anomalies in the process 2008 May 13
New Rules and Economy Strain Adoption Agencies 2008 May 11
Mothers stop hunger strike with hopes of finding his daughters stolen 2008 May 9
Guatemala Suspends Foreign Adoptions 2008 May 6
Mothers Hold Hunger Strike to Demand the Return of their Kidnapped Children 2008 May 3
Guatemala announces legal review of all 2,300 pending adoption cases 2008 May 1
Adoption: Three hospitals are under investigation for missing baby 2008 Apr 7
Guatemala Adoption Fraud May Hit U.S. 2008 Mar 11
Processed four for fraud in adoptions 2008 Mar 6
At least 500 have been stolen - Three thousand children are awaiting adoption 2008 Feb 6
Create unit investigating illegal adoptions in the PNC 2007 Dec 20
'I had nothing to give my child' (a voluntary adoption) 2007 Dec 18
'I was made to give up my daughter' 2007 Dec 18
Guatemala adoptions: a baby trade? 2007 Dec 17
Inside Guatemala's adoption pipeline: Latin nation tries to fight image as baby factory for the U.S. 2007 Nov 11
US vs Mary Bonn: Sentencing 2007 Oct 7
Anomalous authorization by a judge identified 2007 Sep 3
'Stolen' Guatemala children found 2007 Aug 13
Child stealing, a shadowy practice 2007 Jul 22
The National Civil Police rescued baby stolen in Zone 2 and Capture the Alleged Kidnappers 2007 Jul 18
US vs Mary Bonn: Report and Recommendation concerning Pleas of Guilty 2007 Jul 9
US vs Mary Bonn Plea Agreement 2007 Jul 7
ADOPTION HEARTACHE LEADS TO CHARGES 2007 May 5
Adoption Service Providers Banned 2007 Apr 24
A BABY MARKET? 2007 Apr 4
Battle for Children - Video from Miami Herald 2007 Apr 4
Facilitator's arrest puzzles adoptive families 2007 Mar 3
GUATEMALA UNDER SCRUTINY FOR ABUSES IN ADOPTIONS 2007 Feb 28
Minnesota / Facilitator's arrest puzzles adoptive families 2007 Feb 18
GUATEMALA: The Dark Side of Five-Star Adoptions 2007 Feb 16
PGN denounces 21 notaries 2006 Nov 28
Guatemala system is scrutinized as Americans rush in to adopt 2006 Nov 4
Marta Marilu Martinez Escobar banned from US Embassy 2006 Aug 14
Couples Rush For Guatemala Adoptions 2006 Jul 26
Making “American” Families: Transnational Adoption and U.S. Latin America Policy 2006 Jan 1
The business of adoption 2005 Nov 20
How Sylvia and Jocelyn became Amaya Grace Webb 2005 Oct 13
CASA ALIANZA LEGAL ADVISOR MURDERED 2005 Sep 12
Guatemala - Attacks on Justice [International Commission of Jurists report] 2005 Jan 1
Oscar Rene Portillo-Donis banned from USE 2004 Aug 9
TRAFFICKING IN CHILDREN IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN 2004 Jul 1
Guatemala Attorney Blanca Martinez banned 2004 Apr 22
The Cabal to Silence Bruce Harris [opinion] 2004 Jan 18
Agency, Families at Odds Over Adoptions 2003 Apr 27
Freedom of speech goes on trial in Guatemala [opinion] 2002 Jul 28
Police raid on Guatemala home nets 21 babies readied for illegal adoption 2001 Jan 1
Babies for Export - Guatemala (Journeyman documentary) 2000 Nov 7
Special Report: International Adoption from Americas.org [Latin America] 2000 Nov 1
The Baby Business - Guatemala (video) 2000 Nov 1
The Children of Guatemala 2000 Oct 28
Casa Alianza Presentation to the United Nation’s Committee on the Rights of the Child 2000 Sep 22
Guatemala's baby business 2000 Sep 1
Guatemala babies 'sold to highest bidders' 2000 Jun 13
THE BUSINESS OF SELLING BABIES? 2000 Jun 4
Guatemala starts crackdown on illegal baby trade 2000 Apr 5
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography [Guatemala] 2000 Jan 27
Adoption and the Rights of the Child in Guatemala by ILPEC Guatemala for UNICEF 2000 Jan 1
Buy Buy Baby: 'Children available: newborns, healthy, male and female' 1999 Aug 27
GUATEMALA: TIGHTER ADOPTION CONTROLS URGED 1999 Jul 28
U.N. studies international adoptions in Guatemala 1999 Jul 19
Sales of Guatemala Babies 1999 Jul 15
INFORMATION ABOUT ADOPTION CASES OF ASSISTED BY CASA ALIANZA 1998 Jan 1
Human Rights Office of the Archbishop of Guatemala joined the Defense of the Director of Casa Alianza 1997 Nov 5
Guatemalan prostitutes tell bitter tales of bondage and baby trade 1997 Nov 2
Selling Babies, an interview with Bruce Harris 1997 Oct 9
From Guatemala, an international network of child trafficking 1997 Sep 20
N.Y. SUSPENDS ADOPTION AGENCY 1997 Mar 20
AGENCY ACCUSED OF CHARGE FOR FALSE ADOPTIONS 1996 Sep 14
RED TAPE BARS PARENTS FROM GUATEMALAN CHILD 1994 Mar 7
New Forms of Violence Against Children: A Report on the Trafficking of Children and International Adoptions in Guatemala [Draft] 1994 Jan 1
BABIES STOLEN OR BOUGHT IN LATIN AMERICA FOR SALE ABROAD 1988 Sep 2
AMERICAN HELD IN SALE OF GUATEMALAN CHILDREN 1981 Oct 28
U.S. Demand for Adoptions Spurs Baby Trade in Guatemala 1979 Apr 17

Location

Guatemala City