"Over 30,000 children in Guatemala were adopted internationally decades ago but some have learned they were taken away from their birth families," says this article from NBC News. The article shares the stories of some adults who were adopted internationally from Guatemala as young children, and how they discovered that they had been "taken away from their birth families in fraudulent circumstances." For example, Mariela Sifonte, who was adopted as an infant and grew up in Belgium, learned she had been stolen from the hospital in Guatemala as a newborn and that her mother had been told the baby had died. "Sifonte's story illustrates the conclusions of a sweeping May 2007 report from the Hague Conference on International Law, which found that Guatemala's fragile laws at the time turned adoptions into a 'business.'"
