It is one of those stories that seem written by fate, but that have roots in one of the darkest pages of Chile. After 46 long years, two twin sisters, torn from their mother at birth and illegally adopted in Italy during the dictatorship of Pinochet, have finally been able to tighten her back to her.
The meeting took place at Carriel Sur airport, in the biobío region, in front of cameras and a whole moved country. When María Verónica Soto Toro has squeezed the daughters Adelia And María BeatrizIn the arms, tears told what words could not express: a pain never dormant, a love never turned off.
It was 1979 when the two neonates were taken away with the excuse of an alleged appearance. In reality, it was a forced adoption, one of the many operated in those years when thousands of children were removed from their families to be entrusted abroad.
María, a young single mother, has never stopped looking for them. For almost half a century he knocked on courts, embassies and associations, supported by the movement “Sons and mothers of silence“.
The turning point thanks to the DNA
The thread that seemed broken was mended thanks to science: a DNA test made by Adelia’s son in Italy made it possible to trace the identity of the biological mother. From there, the official confirmation and the contact that changed everything.
It is as if I had gave birth to them again, but adults, women, mothers. God listened to me, “said María, with a voice broken by emotion. And he launched a message to all the Chilean mothers who still look for the stolen children: do not stop hoping for. Today there are tools that we did not have before.
Behind the reunification there was also the support of the community: the mayor of Hualpén, Miguel Rivera, financed the journey of the twins from Italy, and NGO as Nos Buscamos accompanied the path, encouraging the use of genetic analyzes to reconstruct broken ties.
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Adelia and María Beatriz spent intense weeks in Chile, knowing brothers and relatives never met before. It is the beginning of a new family life, which is recurre after decades of silences and absences.
Their story is not just a private story: it is a lighthouse of hope for thousands of families still divided by the violence of those years. It reminds all of us that no lost embrace is never completely unrecoverable.
