Mother reunites with American daughter taken as baby during Chile's dictatorship


Edita Bizama laughs with her daughter Adamary Garcia, one of the victims of Pinochet-era forced adoptions, at the airport in Santiago, Chile February 22, 2025. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza

SAN ANTONIO, Chile (Reuters) - "I knew she'd find me," Edita Bizama, 64, said from her home in the Chilean port city of San Antonio after finally reuniting with the daughter who was taken from her over 40 years ago during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

Adamary Garcia was removed from her mother a few days after birth and sent abroad for adoption, one of as many as 20,000 children that authorities estimate were forcibly taken from their parents by a military government that saw international adoptions as a way to reduce child poverty.

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