US citizen Kyle Adler, taken as a nine-month-old baby during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile, was reunited this year with his biological mother, Chilean national Ana María Navarrete, thirty-five years after the forced separation. The reunion, which took place on Valentine's Day at Santiago airport and was documented by the Associated Press news agency, illustrates the scale of a network of fraudulent adoptions that during the Chilean military regime (1973-1990) took more than twenty thousand children from poor and indigenous families, according to official estimates.

For the first time since he was an infant, Kyle Adler boarded a plane in February to meet his birth mother

For the first time since he was an infant, Kyle Adler boarded a plane in February to meet his birth mother

For the first time since he was an infant, Kyle Adler boarded a plane in February to meet his birth mother

Tras años de búsqueda y una crisis de identidad, Kyle Adler descubrió que fue uno de los infantes desaparecidos durante el régimen de Augusto Pinochet

Kyle Adler 36, who was stolen from his Chilean mother as a baby and illegally adopted in the US, traveled to Chile earlier this year to reunite with his birth family for the first…

El Gobierno chileno estima que más de 20.000 niños fueron sustraídos de sus familias.

Separado de sus orígenes a los nueve meses, este hombre criado en Chicago logró reunirse con su familia biológica. Organizaciones civiles hicieron posible el reencuentro tras…

US citizen Kyle Adler, taken as a nine-month-old baby during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile, was reunited this year with his biological mother, Chilean…

Kyle Adler descubrió que fue víctima de adopciones ilegales durante la dictadura de Pinochet y, tras años de búsqueda y una prueba de ADN, logró abrazar a su madre biológica por…