Forced adoptions in Chile, mothers and children in search of the truth
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Aída Cáceres' daughter was torn from her at birth, before being adopted in France.
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By: Justine Fontaine Follow
20 mins
Between the 1960s and the 1990s, more than twenty thousand Chilean children were adopted and taken abroad by French, Italian, American, Belgian and Canadian families.
Adoptions encouraged by the dictatorship of General Pinochet.
But years later, voices began to rise in Chile: several thousand birth mothers had in fact never agreed to have their babies given up for adoption. RFI reached out to these women in Chile, but also of children adopted in France, who are looking for their origins.
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