International backlash grows after move to strip Guatemalan president-elect's immunity

International rebuke swelled on Saturday over what observers say are efforts to use a politicized justice system to keep Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arevalo out of office. A prosecutor at Guatemala's attorney general's office on Thursday moved to strip Arevalo of his immunity from prosecution, accusing him and his running mate of complicity in the takeover of a university in the capital last year. Arevalo, an anti-graft candidate elected in a landslide in August, called the prosecutor's move "absolutely illegal."

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