Gonzalez

MEMORANDUM **

Nery Roland Gonzalez, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review factual findings for substantial evidence and must uphold the BIA’s determination unless the evidence compels a contrary result. Cruz-Navarro v. INS, 232 F.3d 1024, 1028 (9th *678 Cir.2000). We deny the petition for review.

Gonzalez testified that his uncle Juan Ramirez was a former member of the national police and, on one occasion, guerillas asked Gonzalez where his uncle was and beat him up when he did not tell them. Gonzalez also testified that, since he left Guatemala, his brother and cousin have been killed. However, he had little information on the circumstances of his relatives’ deaths and offered no objective evidence that either of the murders was committed by guerillas or motivated by the victim’s relationship to Ramirez. Gonzalez also testified that Ramirez still resides in the town in which he had worked as a police officer, and he presented no…