Rosa

MEMORANDUM **

Marta Nohemi Espinoza Rosa (“Espinoza”), a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing her appeal of the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her requests for asylum, withholding of removal, relief under the Convention Against Torture, and voluntary departure. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We deny the petition.

We review for substantial evidence the IJ’s and the BIA’s adverse credibility finding and denial of asylum and we uphold those determinations unless the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244-45 (9th Cir.2000).

Substantial evidence supports the adverse credibility finding because Espinoza provided information in her initial and supplemental asylum applications and in her asylum interview that was inconsistent with and contradictory to her hearing testimony, and she was unable to reconcile these discrepancies. See id. at 1245 (upholding adverse credibility determination because petitioner’s explanation of discrepancies between asylum application and hearing testimony did not “eompel[] the opposite result”). For example,…