Internal Memos from US Embassy Guatemala Coming Soon

Author Erin Siegal has received almost 500 pages of internal memos from the US Embassy in Guatemala. See Erin’s first post on this here. She promises to release them all in an e-book at the end of October.

For anyone who has their head in the sand about unethical practices in some of these countries, you need to realize now that eventually intrepid reporters will get their hands on memos through FOIA. Erin states that it took two years for her to receive these. The Schuster Institute finally received Vietnam memos. It will eventually happen someday for places like Ethiopia. The dirt will come out. Your child will find these and read them.  If you think the adoption industry will look good in these memos, then you haven’t been reading our site enough.

She gives everyone a tease by posting part of a memo from 1996 and from 2002. The 1996 memo indicates the topic of “adoption fraud” dates back to 1990. 1990! That should give everyone some pause.

The 2002 memo has additional shock value in how they communicate the adoptive parent’s attitude. US Embassy is “committed to serve the thousands of insistent US adoptive families, who are always eager to enlist the help of their congressional representatives.”

Insistent adoptive families. They don’t mince words, do they? Ethics and care about how the child became available do not appear in this description of prospective adoptive parents. If you are caught up in a slowdown or shutdown, what kind of prospective parent will you be remembered as?

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