Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arevalo said Tuesday he was temporarily suspending the transition process and called for the resignation of the attorney general following raids on electoral facilities during which government agents opened boxes of votes and photographed their contents in what experts called an unprecedented violation of the law.
The government of Guatemala has been targeting opposition candidate Bernardo Arevalo ahead of the runoff election on August 20. This includes a raid on his party's offices.