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."
By Brendan O'Boyle (Reuters) - International rebuke swelled on Saturday over what observers say are efforts to use a politicized justice system to kee.
Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo de León Friday said there was “a coup d état in progress” in his country, with many organizations wanting to “break the constitutional order and violate democracy” by attacking him and his Semilla Movement party.