Fifty-five children were taken from their mothers at birth and sent for adoption or sold in Italy under the military dictatorship in Chile. This was revealed by unpublished civil police data released at the Fourth Congress of the Mothers and Children of Silence Foundation.
Investigations into the fate of these children are ongoing and the Foundation's campaign aims to put pressure on the investigation to progress.
The data was released on the occasion of the presentation of the international campaign to search for daughters and sons stolen during the Pinochet dictatorship, estimated at over 20 thousand children sent to Europe and North America, through forced adoption or trafficking.
The director of the Foundation, Marisol Rodríguez, underlined that "in 50 years no government has looked for them", adding that the vast majority of these boys and girls, who are now adults, have no photographs because they were kidnapped and sold as soon as they were born.
An element that makes the search even more difficult for families.
According to the police register, 178 children were sent to Sweden, 119 distributed to Chile itself, 90 to the United States, 55 to Italy, 30 to France, and a smaller number to other countries.
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