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Forty-two years ago, hospital workers took Maria Gonzalez’ son from her arms right after birth. Documents say
they later told her he had died. Now, she was meeting him face-to-face at her home in Valdivia, Chile.
His effort to find the birth family he never knew began in April. That was when he read news stories
about adoptees who had been born in Chile and had been reunited with their birth relatives through a Chilean
nonprofit group called Nos Buscamos.
The organization found that Thyden had been born prematurely at a hospital in Santiago, Chile’s capital, and
had been placed in an incubator. Gonzalez was told to leave the hospital, but when she returned to get her baby, she
was told he had died and his body had been removed, documents say.
“The paperwork I have for my adoption tells me I have no living relatives. And I learned in the last few months
that I have a mama and I have four brothers and a sister,” Thyden said. He now lives in Ashburn, Virginia, where he
works as a criminal defense lawyer.
The group Nos Buscamos estimates that tens of thousands of babies were taken from Chilean families in the
1970s and 1980s. That claim is based on a report from the Investigations Police of Chile, a civilian group, which
examined the passports of Chilean children who left the country and never returned.
“The real story was these kids were stolen from poor families, poor women, that didn’t know how to defend
themselves,” said Constanza del Rio, founder and director and Nos Buscamos.
Over the past nine years, Nos Buscamos has organized reunions for more than 450 adoptees and their birth
families, del Rio said. Other nonprofit groups are doing similar work, both in Chile and the U.S.
Thyden said his reunion with his birth family was a success. But, he knows that reunification might not go as
well for other adoptees. 【題組】48. Why did Thyden’s mom leave the hospital without him in the first place?
(A) He was very weak.
(B) He was taken away by his father.
(C) She needed to apply for a passport.
(D) She had no money for the hospital.
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