Yet another disheartening example of cooperation between US groups and authoritarians elsewhere, as Guatemalan prosecutors (under US sanctions for undermining the rule of law) collaborate with American politicians & media —— raiding an aid organization that's providing essential services to Guatemalan children
The sad part of this story is that Guatemalans have a real mistrust of foreign NGOs that say they are helping children — thanks largely to a decades of Americans paying money to adopt trafficked Guatemalan indigenous children.
Rachel Nolan wrote about this for the Guardian in 2024: "At the height of the adoption boom, one in 100 children born in Guatemala was placed for adoption with a family abroad."
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