Sen. Landrieu said that the decree may include more than 44 cases, although those are certain to be resolved.
Until the suspension of foreign adoptions, Guatemala was the fourth country in the world in terms of the number of children placed in adoption, after Russia, China and South Korea.
Authorities suspended adoptions after discovering evidence some babies had been stolen, others had fake birth certificates, and women were being coerced to give up their children.
Prior to the shutdown, Guatemala was the world's second-largest source of babies to the U.S. after China due to its routinely quick adoption process.
During the Central American nation's 36-year civil war, supposedly the Guatemalan army stole over 300 children and sold them for adoption.
US lawmakers have called on their government to ease red tape that has slowed the adoption of Guatemalan children.
Adoption officials said DNA tests indicated that a Guatemalan baby reported stolen from her mother was being adopted by an American couple. Jaime Tecu, director of a team of experts reviewing...
A Fort Worth adoption agency took a team of volunteers to Guatemala in the midst of an adoption freeze that has North Texas parents awaiting the chance to unite with their adopted children....
For 14 months, Ana Escobar studied the tiny fingers of every passing baby, searching for a girl with pinkies that curved gracefully outward, just like those of her missing daughter....
In Guatemala, recent DNA tests confirmed what’s long been suspected: babies are being stolen and put up for adoption by corrupt state agencies. Gunmen stole Ana Escobar’s six-month-old...
Adoption officials said Wednesday that DNA tests indicate a Guatemalan baby reported stolen from her mother was being adopted by a U.S. couple, the first strong sign that the Central American...
Last winter, Joelle and Mark Hines were preparing to adopt a baby from Guatemala. So were Marisa and Roger Albers and Kay and Butch Caldwell. The three Belleville couples live...
Guatemalan mothers are staging a sit-in in front of the US embassy in this capital to demand the return of their daughters given up irregularly or adoption to couples from...
Isabella Dudding wants her sister to come home. The 2-year-old Colleyville girl has never met her sibling — 1-year-old Sienna, living in a Guatemalan orphanage — but she knows she...
The 24-year-old Guatemalan mother had given up her baby once. Now, months later, the infant daughter was back in her lap, smiling and playing with her mother's fingers. And Karen Donis...
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