“I knew that she would find me,” 64 -year -old Edita Bijama told her home in the port city of Chile, San Antonio, that after finally reconnected with the daughter, 40 years ago, who was taken from her during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet 40 years ago. Was.
Edmar Garcia was removed from her mother a few days after birth and was sent abroad to adopt, one of the more than 20,000 children who estimate that their parents have forcibly taken by a military government from their parents Was gone, which saw international adoption as a way of reducing child poverty.
“Was a social worker who was constantly, actually consistent,” said the business. It was 1984 and the business, who already had two young children, expressed interest in adoption during his pregnancy. But then he started doubting.
“But the social worker said, how are you raising three children? You do not have a job, you do not have a house, you have no stability.”
Biza said that he spent five days with his daughter, caught her and feeding, before she was taken to an office at a distance of a few hours, forced her child to hand over and sent to a bus in her hometown. Gave.
It was a secret business from most parts of his family for decades. There was no name or way to find her daughter.
Thousands of miles away, Edmar Garcia – who grew up in Florida and now live in Puerto Rico – knew that they were adopted, but did not know anything about the circumstances.
Then a friend shared a story about the Tyler graph, a Texas Fire Fighter, which came to know that he was taken as an infant during dictatorship and started an NGO, to add roots, to add roots, to Chile To take adoption with your biological families.
Find out through his sister’s birth certificate and then confirmed with a DNA test, recognizing the business connecting the roots as Garcia’s birth mother.
Garcia, now 41, looks like her mother and two sisters. Like his elder sister, she has an attraction for dogs – he has saved and promoted dozens of dogs between them.
She looks different, however – her Puerto Rickon Spanish Miami idios with her biological family’s distinctive chili accents.
Garcia said, “We were looking at each other and not saying much,” the first time he spoke on the zoom, remembering. “Looking at my mother’s eyes and says, ‘This is the person who has given me life and Oh my God, I like her very much.”
Then, last week, there was a tearful meeting in the person at the airport.
Garcia was one of the five dataks connecting the roots brought to Chile this year, which the NGO has traveled to the fourth reunion.
Graf says that the government supports the functions of the NGO, but the goal of the group is more practical than political, which has been late, before that more families can be reunited.
“These mothers are getting older, some of them have passed away,” said Graf. “So we are in a race against time.”
Usually, adopted parents had no idea of the circumstances in which their children were taken, they said. Garcia said that her adopted parents were very supporters what she was doing.
Now she is receiving a crash course in Chile Slang, food, music and culture, and planning to travel through Petagonia with her sisters and make Chile a big part of her life.
“This is non-stop laughter and tears,” said Garcia. “I think this is a moment that helps everyone close on things that happened 40 years ago and at the same time starts installing relationships that are going on life.”
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