Despicable trade

Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala, Rachel Nolan, 2024, Harvard University Press

In the annals of global capitalism, the vilest form of commodification concerns the most uncorrupted of creations—children.

“Some countries export bananas,” a Guatemalan lawyer who arranged private adoptions once told The Economist. “We exported babies.”

The Central American country occupies a notorious place . . .

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Categories: Central America, Europe, Guatemala, International, North America, United States

Gavin O'Toole

I've spent much of my career in journalism and newspaper production: worked as a sub-editor and in other production roles at major UK newspapers including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer and the Daily Telegraph / Sunday Telegraph. Covering business, finance, regulation, Latin American affairs and more. As a journalist and freelance writer I've contributed to many publications: work appears in outlets such as Al Jazeera, Public Finance, Global Government Forum, among others. Also an an award-winning writer of short stories and novelist. 

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