Otto Perez Molina, Guatemala President, To Speed Up 350 Adoptions For U.S.

GUATEMALA CITY -- Guatemala's president says he's willing to speed up 350 adoptions by U.S. couples that were in process before his Central American nation suspended adoptions by foreigners in 2007 following allegations of fraud and baby theft.

President Otto Perez Molina said Wednesday he hopes to resolve those cases after meeting with U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who has been traveling to Guatemala to push for the adoptions to go through.

The government issued a decree last August approving adoptions that had been fully arranged before the ban, but it applied to only 44 cases.

Guatemala was once a top source of adopted children for U.S. couples, with more than 4,000 a year. The U.N.-created International Commission Against Impunity studied 3,000 adoptions and found irregularities such as falsified paperwork and fake birth certificates.

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[Rascal7]

07:29 PM on 04/12/2012

Adopting a child in the US is a fear that the natural parents will come back later in life or decide to not go through with the adoption and the emotional attachment has devestating effects on the adoptive parents.. That's why they adopt elsewhere.

[skippy42]

06:31 PM on 04/12/2012

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana should encourage people in Louisiana to adopt some of the poor babies in her state. Who is paying for her trip? There are a LOT of American children that are thrown into poverty in this country.

[Birdman 49]

09:29 AM on 04/13/2012

No people are looking to adopt from other countries because of the red tape in this country. they have made it too hard to adopt within this country.

[Danilo-11]

06:01 PM on 04/12/2012

A friend of mine went to Guatemala and told me that having babies for adoption is an industry over there.... pretty sad.

[mira chancleta]

06:58 PM on 04/12/2012

I have traveled there a couple of times and the whole country knows that you can become part of the baby factory machine and support your other kids from the SALE of one "baby" per year...in another time this would have been called "black market" baby trade, but today it's called "diversity adopting"...what a mess.

[Rascal7]

07:25 PM on 04/12/2012

I live here an this is not the case. In fact, educate yourself to find out that you should not get to close to a Guatemalan child for fear that they will be stolen.

[mira chancleta]

07:14 PM on 04/12/2012

don't try to figure it out...your head will explode...mine has.

[rotorhead1871]

05:51 PM on 04/12/2012

where are these kids coming from???

[Rascal7]

07:26 PM on 04/12/2012

Guatemala?

[SandsAZ]

05:51 PM on 04/12/2012

The UN found faked Birth certificates?

Oh my

[mira chancleta]

05:12 PM on 04/12/2012

The bribes to corrupt administrators, politicians, lawyers and assorted "diversity" adoption peddlars should balance Guatemala's national treasury with those adoptions.

Gee, I hope they save some money for the DECADES of psycho-therary these kids will need after growing up in all-white communities across the States, where they will be ridiculed, humiliated and marginalized.

Oh well, at least their adoptive parents tried with all those trips to the Taco Bell drive-up, to show Bryce-Maria and Brad-Jose their "culture".

[toddnjean]

04:20 PM on 04/12/2012

Why aren't these people adopting American kids? We currently have over 100,000 kids waiting to be adopted here. This to me is one of the problems with America, ban abortions and adopt kids from other countries.

[mira chancleta]

05:21 PM on 04/12/2012

...1, they are not adopting black kids because they're not THAT "unaware" of race.

...2, they are not adopting white kids because white women have closed up the baby factory in lieu of tanning beds, tramp stamp tattoos and silicone implants.

...3, they are not adopting American-born, 1-size-fits all "La Tino" kids from planet Hyspanik because they are not that fond of Taco Bell food

...4. they are not adopting American-born Asians because there are VERY few of them to be adopted, as Asian-American families have learned NOT to depend on social services to learn birth control or to fix their familial problems...in short, they RAISE the children they put on this earth

...5. they are flying right over the Black and Brown ghettoes of America to find their lovely diversity bundles handed over to them by baby traffickers posing as nuns and other "samaritans", even though many of those babies have been stolen to be sold to idiot Americans waiting at the airport with bags of money.

Seen it again and again...so sad.

[Michael Ludin]

06:08 PM on 04/12/2012

no -- they are not adopting American children because there are essentially no "orphaned" children in the US. And the few babies that do come up go very quickly -- in the life a child -- literally minutes. The older a kid gets, a sibling, any affliction which more and more have since most come from some sort of broken home with a mental health deficit at the very least make them much harder to adopt out -- to raise, to care for, etc. then an a-typical foreign baby available at newborn or close to it simply due to poverty. It is sad but it is the state of affairs stated a bit simply.

[c8edid]

05:42 PM on 04/12/2012

Who wants an older American kid who can be yanked away from your good loving home and given back to their bio parents to be abused/neglected/damaged after you've already bonded with them.

[skippy42]

06:35 PM on 04/12/2012

You are right on target. But, hopefully, the foster kids will have SOME good memories.

[mdsman]

03:31 PM on 04/12/2012

So many children to adopted but the rules and regulations make it easier to go over seas. that is sad.....

[mira chancleta]

07:13 PM on 04/12/2012

...foster care is big business in the US and it is a tragedy that children wind up raped, abused, sold into prostitution and denied even basic humanity by a system that is supposed to protect them...so sad

[duhtruth]

02:54 PM on 04/12/2012

Egad and little fishes.