Rachel Nolan

Nov 13, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Ieva Jusionyte |Jason de Léon |Rachel Nolan

There are​ only two gun stores in Mexico. Throughout the enormous country, which takes three full days to cross by car from top to bottom if you don’t stop, the only places you can legally buy a gun are a shop on a military base in the capital and a shop on another military base in the large northern city of Monterrey. It’s not advisable to drive straight through Mexico any more, even if you don’t stop. The country is awash with guns, which are often in the hands of criminal outfits.

Apr 15, 2024 | theamericanconservative.com | Rachel Nolan |Harvard Press |Evie Solheim

Books The Worst-Case Scenario of International Adoption If children are the future, then Guatemala greatly undervalued its own. Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala, by Rachel Nolan, Harvard University PressInternational adoption has sharply declined over the last 15 years, but the fraud and corruption that characterized many countries’ adoption systems in its heyday is only now coming to light.

Feb 1, 2024 | nybooks.com | Rachel Nolan

In August 2017 Eliane Brum, one of Brazil’s best-known journalists, moved from the great metropolis of São Paulo to Altamira, a small, violence-plagued city along the Xingu River in the Amazon.

Jan 18, 2024 | thedial.world | Rachel Nolan

Ongoing scandals in Guatemala and elsewhere pushed the biggest change in the international adoption market since it first emerged in the 1950s. A new international agreement called the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption came into force 1 May 1995. The Hague Convention explicitly banned baby brokers and payments of any kind for birth mothers, and in general mandated more stringent oversight for international adoptions.

Jan 16, 2024 | guernicamag.com | Erin Siegal McIntyre |Rachel Nolan

Years ago, I sat in the polished office of the notorious Guatemala City attorney Fernando “Skippy” Linares Beltranena alongside my best friend, Juan Carlos Llorca. At the time, Llorca worked as Guatemala City bureau chief for the Associated Press. He knew the ins and outs of every government system, and he was helping me as I reported a book investigating organized crime and corruption in adoption.