My husband took my children during the trial… but he had no idea my brother was arriving with 12 armored trucks.

The sound of the gavel falling in the family court in Mexico City did not sound like justice.

It sounded like a death sentence.

The judge adjusted his glasses, checked the file one last time, and said, without looking Mariana Robles in the eye, that full custody of her two children would remain in the hands of Esteban Cárdenas.

He also awarded Esteban continue reading …