For a week, the country was in upheaval, but the military complied when a judge on the country’s Constitutional Court issued an order invalidating the president’s move. The judge, Epaminondas González Dubón, who was also involved in the Myrna Mack case, was killed a year later in a drive-by shooting, after he approved the extradition of a military officer to the US. Around that time, an assassination plot against Helen was exposed, and she briefly had to leave the country.
