The boy with red hair: 26 years searching for my stolen son
Sara Méndez’s decades-long hunt to find her baby boy, vanished during Uruguay’s military dictatorship. All she had to go on was his red hair.
When Sara Méndez was kidnapped and imprisoned for her political activism during Uruguay’s dictatorship, she was horrified to learn that her three-week-old baby son, Simon, had been vanished by agents of the military junta. After her release, she began a desperate search to find Simon. All she knew about him was that he had red hair. With so little to go on, the challenge was overwhelming but Sara wasn't giving up.
Reporter: Grace Livingstone
Producer: Maryam Maruf
Voiceovers: Yazmina Garcia, William Marquez, Marco Silva
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(Photo: Sara Mendez in 1996, holding up a photo of her missing baby Simon. Credit: Juan Angel Urruzola)
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