Guatemala's Adoption Industry

Guatemala's Adoption Industry

To prevent anything resembling a leftist revolution, the United States kept its hand in the game by quietly providing military aid, until the Guatemalan army was implicated in the well-publicized murder of a U.S. citizen in 1990.6 By the time the United Nations-brokered peace accords were signed in...

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Veröffentlicht in:SAIS review (Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies) 2007-07, Vol.27 (2), p.179
1. Verfasser: Garigan, Meave
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Adoption
Birth control
Children & youth
Families & family life
Parents & parenting
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Zusammenfassung:To prevent anything resembling a leftist revolution, the United States kept its hand in the game by quietly providing military aid, until the Guatemalan army was implicated in the well-publicized murder of a U.S. citizen in 1990.6 By the time the United Nations-brokered peace accords were signed in 1996, over 200,000 civilians had been killed or 'disappeared'.7 Adoption served a humanitarian purpose by finding homes for children orphaned by war.
ISSN:1945-4716
1945-4724