Blanca Azucena Lopez-Garcia v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

24 F.3d 247 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Blanca Azucena LOPEZ-GARCIA, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 93-70652. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted May 9, 1994. * Decided May 13, 1994. 1 Before: NOONAN and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges and EZRA ** , District Judge 2 MEMORANDUM *** 3 Blanca Azucena Lopez-Garcia petitions for a review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying her asylum. She is a 33-year-old native and citizen of Nicaragua. When the Sandinistas were in power, she worked with a local Sandinista Defense Committee in activities like cutting of coffee and literacy campaigns. She became disillusioned with the Sandinistas and stopped work for the committee. She was then threatened with the loss of her food ration card and was told that she could not get a letter she would need to get work, and she would be stopped from going to church. At the time of these events, she…