■ Guatemala
Fix adoption process: US
Guatemala must improve its procedure for foreign adoptions before the US ratifies the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoptions later this year, or the US will no longer give American parents visas for the babies they are seeking to adopt from Guatemala, US Assistant Secretary of Consular Affairs Maura Harty told reporters in Guatemala City on Thursday. More than 4,000 Guatemalan babies were adopted by US parents last year, making the nation the second highest source of US adoptions after China.
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