Babies stolen by the Pinochet regime embarrassing Sweden

The Swedish government is opening an investigation into thousands of forced adoptions during the Chilean dictatorship

BARCELONA “You will never see your child again. It's somewhere in Europe. " With these words, Clas Lindholm's mother learned that she had been deceived and that her newborn son had been stolen. Lindholm, who arrived in Sweden in 1975 at just a few weeks old, discovered when she was 43 that her mother had not abandoned her, but that behind her adoption was a darker story. He is one of more than 2,000 victims of a perverse diplomatic campaign by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet to improve his international image, which, four decades later, also makes Sweden blush.

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