Castellanos-Gonzalez

MEMORANDUM

Raul Castellanos-Gonzalez (“Raul”), his wife Alejandra Maria Guiarte De Castella-nos, and their three children, natives and citizens of Guatemala, petition pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying their application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Sangha v. INS, 103 F.3d 1482, 1487 (9th Cir.1997), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s conclusion that petitioners did not establish past persecution on account of a protected ground, because they did not establish that the people who attempted to kidnap Raul and threatened him over the phone actually imputed a political opinion to him. See id. at 1489-91 . Substantial evidence also supports the BIA’s conclusion that petitioners did not establish an objectively reasonable fear of future persecution on account of a protected ground. See Molina-Morales v. INS, 237 F.3d 1048, 1052 (9th Cir.2001) (noting that personal retribution is not…