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Mother and daughter reunited after 24 years

18:09 H | Topics: El Salvador - World

El Salvador's bloody civil war separated countless families, some of which have never been reunited. But at least one mother and one daughter have found each other again -- 24 years later:

It was 1983 when Francisca Quinteros, who lived in the La Cruz section of the town of Jucuarán, some 150 km southeast of San Salvador, left her daughter in the care of other people, due to the danger she faced as a young woman in a war zone.

"The war was so dangerous that I couldn't care for my daughter, that's why I asked some people to take care of her for me. After a while, they thought I had died, so when I came back they told me they had given her up to a family for adoption," says Quinteros, now 40.

Quinteros went to a non-profit organization two years after the war ended to seek help in finding her daughter. Asociación Pro-búsqueda said they would help, and eventually tracked down María Esperanza Quinteros in Toulouse, France. María Esperanza had been adopted by a French family and was now called Alix Moulin. According to Univision.com, in spite of the language barrier, mother and daughter had a very happy reunion in France, where they spent two weeks together.

That's a happy ending to what was once a heart-wrenching story, but Univision.com reports that Asociación Pro-búsqueda has a total of 787 cases like that of the Quinteros, only 323 of which have been solved.

Via / Univision.com

Image: Univision.com/AFP