Unfortunately, although that exact rumor was just a rumor, the adoption "industry" really took off around then and continued to grow for the next 20 years. It s

Unfortunately, although that exact rumor was just a rumor, the adoption "industry" really took off around then and continued to grow for the next 20 years. It started off legitimately, given the number of children of the civil war. However, demand outpaced supply, and pretty soon, white people were showing up in remote villages offering money for women to get pregnant. Once the babies were delivered in hospitals in Guatemala City, they were taken around the block to an "orphanage" where the adopting families were waiting. Simply walking around the major hotels in Guatemala City in early 2000s (the Marriott especially), you'd see hundreds of families waiting for adoptions. Source: saw this first-hand.