Experts from the United Nations (UN) requested that Guatemalan officials be investigated in relation to their alleged involvement in illegal adoptions of indigenous children after their capture and forced disappearance in the country between 1968 and 1996.
The request includes the current attorney general and head of the Public Ministry, María Consuelo Porras Argueta. It is estimated that at least 80 indigenous minors were subjected to illegal international adoptions after being institutionalized in the Elisa Martínez Temporary Home in that period.
“We are especially concerned that there has not been a prompt, exhaustive, independent and impartial investigation into the alleged involvement of some state authorities in these processes and that mothers affected by these illegal adoptions apparently have not received adequate recognition or reparations,” they said from the UN.