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Colop Chim, it turned out, was not Preat's mother at all, but a \u003ci\u003ejaladora\u003c\/i\u003e—a baby broker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome 40,000 children, many Indigenous, were kidnapped or otherwise coercively parted from families scarred by Guatemala's civil war or made desperate by unrelenting poverty. Amid the US-backed army's genocide against Indigenous Maya, children were wrested from their villages and put up for adoption illegally, mostly in the United States. During the war's second decade, adoption was privatized, overseen by lawyers who made good money matching children to overseas families. 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