Four decades after they were cruelly forced apart, US-raised Adamary Garcia and her birth mother fell into each other's arms Saturday at the airport in Santiago, Chile. Without speaking, they embraced tearfully: A rare reunification for one the thousands of Chileans taken from their mothers as babies and given up for adoption abroad.

Five U.S. adoptees, taken as infants during Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime, are returning to Chile to meet their biological families for the first time.