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#63 - DR VASQUEZ

EPISODE · Jan 17, 2026 · 40 MIN

#63 - DR VASQUEZ

from LAVOZ PODCAST · host LAVOZ PODCAST

In this episode of LAVOZ Podcast, we uncover a dark chapter in international adoption history. This is the story of the evil lawyer, Dr. Vásquez, from Boyacá, Colombia —a man who used his position within the child welfare system to steal, kidnap, and forcibly take children from their Colombian mothers, trafficking them abroad, including to Sweden, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.His name later appears in Swedish government investigations into international adoption.By 1981, he confessed to facilitating the illegal adoption of hundreds of children, exposing how corruption and weak oversight turned adoption into child trafficking.The NewYork Times article about  The Lawyer Dr Vasquez https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/16/world/ring-in-columbia-kidnaps-children-for-sale-abroad.html?ref=oembed"The Swedish government’s investigations into international adoptions include a detailed review of Colombian adoptions, documented in Volume 2, starting on page 239."https://www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/2025/06/sou-202561/Support the podcast on paypalpaypal.me/oscarandreslarssonThe Voices of Our Colombian Motherswww.voicesofmothers.comGracias

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