Oscar Lopez

Oscar Lopez is a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. (February 2026)

Torn Asunder

As Guatemala and El Salvador were being torn apart by violent US-backed regimes, tens of thousands of children—many of them war orphans, others forcibly taken from their birth parents—were being adopted overseas.

Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

by Rachel Nolan

Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador

by Elizabeth Barnert, with a foreword by Philippe Bourgois

February 26, 2026 issue

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