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Adoptions in Guatemala 18 images Created 9 Feb 2007

Scores of Guatemalan children are adopted by foreigners each year, though new rules are making the process more difficult. A combination of wanting, would-be parents and desperately poor Guatemalan mothers helps feed a shadier side of the business.
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  • Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • These children at Casa Alegría, a foster home run by the Guatemalan government, are some of those found in 2003 in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Jennifer Set, a 22-month-old Guatemalan child, at Casa Alegría, a foster home run by the Guatemalan government. Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in August 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Jennifer Set, a 22-month-old Guatemalan child, at Casa Alegría, a foster home run by the Guatemalan government. Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in August 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Jennifer Set, a 22-month-old Guatemalan child, at Casa Alegría, a foster home run by the Guatemalan government. Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in August 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Jennifer Set, a 22-month-old Guatemalan child, at Casa Alegría, a foster home run by the Guatemalan government. Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in August 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • FACTS reporter Bals Rigendinger speaks with Julia Set, left, and her mother at their home in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala. Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Floyd and his wife Leigh, a couple from North Carolina in the United States, sit with their newly adopted baby, Blake, in the Marriott hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala on Saturday, June 18, 2005. Floyd, who declined to give his last name, said he expects that he and his wife will pay about U.S. $30,000 in total for Blake's adoption process, then the same again for another Guatemalan baby they plan to adopt.
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  • Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Jennifer Set, a 22-month-old Guatemalan child, at Casa Alegría, a foster home run by the Guatemalan government. Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in August 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Jennifer Set, a 22-month-old Guatemalan child, at Casa Alegría, a foster home run by the Guatemalan government. Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in August 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Jennifer Set, a 22-month-old Guatemalan child, at Casa Alegría, a foster home run by the Guatemalan government. Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in August 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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  • Jennifer Set, a 22-month-old Guatemalan child, at Casa Alegría, a foster home run by the Guatemalan government. Julia Set, a 20-year-old Mayan woman who lives in a small town near San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, says she sold her baby in August 2003 for 400 Quetzales (about U.S. $52) to a woman introduced to her by a midwife. Her baby and 8 others were found the next month in a Costa Rican house run by an unregistered adoption agency.
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