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Guatemala Apologizes To Family Torn Apart By Forced Adoption

Osmin Tobar hugs his mother Flor Ramirez during a ceremony at which Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo apologized for his forced adoption (Credit: AFP)

Guatemala's president on Friday offered an official apology to one of the many families whose children were taken away and adopted abroad in a multimillion-dollar black market.

Osmin Tobar and his brother J.R. were seven and two years old when they were picked up by officials in a poor district of Guatemala City in 1997, ostensibly for having being abandoned.

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