{"id":2014301,"date":"2023-08-28T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/son-stolen-at-birth-hugs-chilean-mother-for-first-time-in-42-years\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T14:02:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:02:32","slug":"son-stolen-at-birth-hugs-chilean-mother-for-first-time-in-42-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/son-stolen-at-birth-hugs-chilean-mother-for-first-time-in-42-years\/","title":{"rendered":"42 years later, stolen son embraces Chilean mother for the first time."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fson-stolen-at-birth-hugs-chilean-mother-for-first-time-in-42-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2014301&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Reunion After 42 Years: A Mother and Son&#8217;s Incredible Journey<\/h2>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014&#8221;Hola, Mama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What seems like an unremarkable greeting between mother and\u200c son was in this case anything but.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-two years ago, hospital workers took Maria Angelica Gonzalez\u2019 \u2062son from\u200d her arms right after birth and later told her he had died. Now, she was meeting him face-to-face\u200c at\u2064 her home in \u200cValdivia, Chile.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/suella-braverman-calls-on-police-not-to-class-certain-crimes-as-unimportant-5481722\">Suella\u200c Braverman Calls on Police Not \u2062to Class Certain Crimes \u200cas \u2063&#8217;Unimportant&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/28\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/charges-dropped-against-man-accused-of-fleeing-police-in-a-high-speed-chase-that-killed-a-bystander-5481210\">Charges Dropped Against Man Accused of Fleeing Police in a High-Speed Chase That Killed a Bystander<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/28\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I love you very much,&#8221; Jimmy Lippert Thyden told his mother in Spanish as they embraced\u200c amid tears.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u200b knocked the wind out of me. &#8230; I was suffocated by the gravity of this moment,&#8221; Mr. Thyden told The Associated Press in a video \u2064call after\u2063 the reunion. &#8220;How do you hug someone in a way that makes up \u200bfor 42 \u200dyears of hugs?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His journey to find the birth family he never knew began in April after he read news stories about Chilean-born adoptees who had been reunited\u200d with their birth relatives with the help of a Chilean nonprofit\u2062 Nos Buscamos.<\/p>\n<p>The organization found that Mr. Thyden had been born prematurely at a hospital in \u200dSantiago, Chile&#8217;s capital, and placed in an incubator. Ms. Gonzalez was \u200ctold to leave the hospital, but when she returned to get her \u2063baby, she was told he had died and his body\u200b had been disposed of, according to the case file, which Mr. Thyden summarized to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The paperwork I have for my adoption tells me I have no living relatives. And I learned in the\u2063 last few months that I\u200c have a mama and I have \u200cfour brothers \u200cand a sister,&#8221; Mr. Thyden said in the interview from Ashburn, Virginia, where he works\u2064 as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-make-a-straight-man-turn-gay-60-year-old-kathy-griffin-ridiculed-after-dancing-topless-in-viral-video\/\" title=\"\u2018How To Make A Straight Man Turn Gay\u2019: 60-Year-Old Kathy Griffin Ridiculed After Dancing Topless In Viral Video\">criminal defense attorney representing<\/a> &#8220;people who look like me&#8221; who cannot afford a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>He said his was a case\u200b of &#8220;counterfeit adoption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nos Buscamos estimates tens of \u2063thousands of babies were taken from Chilean \u200bfamilies\u2062 in the 1970s \u200band 1980s, based on a report from the Investigations Police of Chile which reviewed the paper passports of \u2063Chilean children who left the country and never came back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real story was \u2064these\u2062 kids were stolen from poor families, poor women that \u2064didn\u2019t know. They didn\u2019t know how to defend\u200b themselves,&#8221; said \u200dConstanza del Rio, founder and director and Nos Buscamos.<\/p>\n<p>The child-trafficking coincided with many other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/haley-blasts-aoc-over-israel-resolution-you-would-fit-great-with-the-anti-semites-at-u-n\/\" title=\"Haley slams AOC on Israel resolution: 'You align with U.N.'s anti-Semites'.\">human \u2063rights violations<\/a> that took place during the 17-year reign of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who on\u2063 Sept. 11, 1973, led a Chilean coup to overthrow Marxist President Salvador Allende. During the dictatorship, at least 3,095 people were killed, according to government figures, and tens of thousands more were tortured or jailed for political reasons.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Thyden as a child\u200c in an undated image. (Jimmy\u200d Thyden \u2064via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the \u200dpast nine years, Nos Buscamos has orchestrated more than \u200d450 reunions between adoptees and their birth \u200bfamilies, Ms. del Rio said.<\/p>\n<p>Other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-attorney-phil-kline-and-it-expert-j-r-carlson-presser-wednesday-exposing-mark-zuckerbergs-dark-money-cash-for-chaos\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Attorney Phil Kline and IT Expert J.R. Carlson Presser Wednesday Exposing Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Dark Money Cash for Chaos\">nonprofit organizations<\/a> are doing similar work, including Hijos y Madres del Silencio in Chile and \u2062Connecting Roots in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Nos Buscamos\u200d has been partnering for two\u2062 years with genealogy \u200cplatform MyHeritage, which provides free at-home DNA testing kits for distribution\u2063 to Chilean adoptees and suspected victims of child trafficking in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Thyden\u2019s DNA test confirmed that he \u2062was 100\u200b percent Chilean and matched him to a first cousin who also uses the MyHeritage platform.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Thyden sent the\u2064 cousin his adoption papers, which included an address for his\u2063 birth mother and a very common name in Chile: Maria Angelica Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out his cousin \u200dhad a Maria\u2064 Angelica Gonzalez on their mother\u2019s side\u200c and helped him make \u2062the connection.<\/p>\n<p>But Ms. Gonzalez wouldn\u2019t take his \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-audio-think-tanks-star-lawsuit-witness-admits-to-tommy-robinson-that-they-bribed-him-for-testimony-against-us-congressional-staffer\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Think Tank\u2019s Star Lawsuit Witness Admits to Tommy Robinson That They Bribed Him For Testimony Against US Congressional Staffer\">phone calls<\/a> until he texted her \u2063a photo of his wife and daughters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then just the dam broke,&#8221; said Mr. Thyden, who sent more photos of the American family who adopted him, his time in the\u200d U.S. Marines, his wedding, and many other memorable life moments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was trying to bookend 42 years of a life taken from her. \u200bTaken from us both,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He traveled to Chile \u200bwith his wife, Johannah, and their two daughters, Ebba\u200b Joy, 8, and\u200d Betty Grace, 5, to meet his \u2062newly discovered \u2064family.<\/p>\n<p>Stepping into his mother\u2019s home, Mr. Thyden was greeted with 42\u200d colorful balloons, each one signifying a year \u2062of lost time with his Chilean family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is an empowerment in popping those balloons, empowerment in being there with your\u2064 family to take inventory of all that was lost,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Thyden\u200b recalls his birth mother\u2019s\u2064 response to hearing from him: &#8220;Mijo (son) you have no idea the oceans\u200b I\u2019ve cried for you. How many nights I<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/son-stolen-at-birth-hugs-chilean-mother-for-first-time-in-42-years\/\" title=\"42 years later, stolen son embraces Chilean mother for the first time.\">\u2019ve laid awake praying<\/a> that God \u2062let\u2064 me live long enough to learn what \u200bhappened to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Gonzalez declined to be interviewed for this story.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Jimmy Thyden as a child with cat Rusty. (Jimmy Thyden via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr. Thyden, along with his wife and\u2063 daughters visited the Santiago zoo where his American \u200dfamily first took him \u2063after the\u200d adoption. This time their tour guide was his biological sister.<\/p>\n<p>Back at Gonzalez&#8217; home, Mr. Thyden\u2062 realized that he and his\u2064 mother share a love of cooking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My hands \u2064are in \u200bthe same dough\u200d as my mama,&#8221; he said as they made fried empanadas together. He pledged to keep using the family recipe to stay connected with \u200dhis family and his culture.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Thyden said his adoptive parents are \u200bsupportive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-two years ago, Maria Angelica Gonzalez was told her newborn son had died. But now, in Valdivia, Chile, they were finally reunited. The emotional meeting between mother and son was far from ordinary, as they embraced each other, saying, &#8220;Hola, Mama.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2014302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}