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Rachel Nolan

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Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

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Files in Guatemala’s Historical Archive of the National Police. Photo by Luis Soto.

In the Best Interest of the Child

A new book gets inside Guatemala’s international adoption industry and the complicated context of deciding a child’s welfare.

by Rachel Nolan, Erin Siegal McIntyre via Guernica on January 16, 2024

A baby awaiting adoption near Guatemala City.

Guatemala’s Baby Brokers: How Thousands of Children Were Stolen For Adoption

Baby brokers often tricked Indigenous Mayan women into giving up newborns; kidnappers took others. International adoption is now seen as a cover for war crimes.

by Rachel Nolan via The Guardian on January 4, 2024

Police and bystanders at night.

Do Cartels Exist?

A revisionist view of the drug wars.

by Rachel Nolan via Harper’s on June 20, 2023

Child clinging onto parents hand.

As American as Child Separation

The United States tears families apart—during slavery, the wars against indigenous people, the war on drugs, and, today, at the border.

by Rachel Nolan via Public Books on February 19, 2021

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