In 1992, Honduras suspended its international adoption program when it was uncovered that babies were kidnapped, taken to "fatte
In 1992, Honduras suspended its international adoption program when it was uncovered that babies were kidnapped, taken to "fattening centers" and then placed for adoption once they made weight. One such center was run in the home of a top aide to US-backed Pres. Rafael Callejas.
10:21 PM · Nov 16, 2021
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@gumby4christ
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Nov 16, 2021
This same aide—Ruben Zepeda Gutierrez, who served as Callejas's Attorney General—was earlier named by a Honduran judge as a member of Honduras' drug trafficking network. The judge, who warned the country was "becoming a narco-state," was promptly fired. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=3204&context=noticen
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@gumby4christ
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Nov 16, 2021
The baby trafficking ring generated $3mil in less than a year and involved some 200 lawyers. Young women were paid $55/mo during their pregnancies and $370 upon delivery, while the lawyers earned as much as $7,000 per adoption. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7760&context=noticen
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@gumby4christ
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Nov 16, 2021
As noted in the AFP article above, the infants were given false identification documents. Their adoptions were were arranged through 12 adoption agencies operating in the US, none of which were registered in Honduras.
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@gumby4christ
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Nov 16, 2021
Who adopted these children? One person we know of is Reagan's man in Honduras, John Negroponte, who, with his noble-born duchess wife, adopted five kids from the country. One of these, Sophia, is currently facing murder charges for stabbing a man to death.
foxnews.com
Adopted daughter of former top diplomat John Negroponte charged with murder in Maryland stabbing
A woman charged with first-degree murder in connection with a deadly stabbing in Maryland has been identified as the daughter of former ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte.
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@gumby4christ
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Nov 17, 2021
But the Negropontes' role in Honduras's corrupt adoption network actually goes deeper, as documented in Margaret E. Ward's memoir, "Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War."