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She was told her babies were dead Instead they were sold abroad What happened when she met them 40 years on?

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

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Chilean adoptee reunites with birth mother, helps other stolen adoptees do the same

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.

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Chilean adoptee reunites with birth mother, helps other stolen adoptees do the same

Chilean adoptee reunites with birth mother, helps other stolen adoptees do the same
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Pinochet dictatorship: Sara reunites with her children, who were stolen 40 years ago during Pinochet s dictatorship | International

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

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She thought her mother gave her away Like thousands of Chileans, she was taken

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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