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Four families torn apart by Chile’s illegal adoption scandal finally found each other decades later. They describe the emotional moment they met – and how they pieced together the lives they had spent apart

From the 1960s through the 1980s in Chile, about 20,000 babies were stolen from their mothers and placed in adoptions outside the country. The mothers were young and poor. Some were indigenous. They were lied to, often being told their babies died at birth.

For the first time, the Chilean victim is able to hug her children, who were taken from her at birth and adopted off to a family in the United States. ‘I couldn’t believe it when they told me they were alive,’ she tells EL PAÍS

María Hastings, 37, has always known she was adopted, but she didn't know that her mother didn't give her up willingly. On Sunday she met her biological family for the first time.

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Emily Reid, who was stolen from her birthmother in Chile, embarks on the journey of a lifetime to reunite with the mom she never knew.

A local man is about to go on a trip of a lifetime.

A Northern Virginia man who was stolen at birth from his biological mother in Chile is going to be reunited with her soon.

Thousands of overseas adoptions during the Pinochet dictatorship have come under scrutiny amid quest for justice.

"Hola, mamá." What seems like an unremarkable greeting between mother and son was in this case anything but.