By Maira Magro
The Interior Minister has blamed Clarín media group owner, Ernestina Herrera de Noble, and her two children for difficulties in determining whether the siblings Marcela and Felipe Noble were adopted from parents who disappeared during the military dictatorship (1976-1983), Europa Press reports. The minister accused them of obstructing justice.
The National Genetic Database said they were unable to test the Noble children’s DNA due to contamination, AFP adds.
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a collection of women who want children taken during the dictatorship to be returned to their biological families, suspect that the Nobles were illegally adopted during and suggested that the contamination was intentional. Página 12 explains.
For more information, see this post in Portuguese.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
