Navarijo-Cardenas

MEMORANDUM **

Conrado Leonel Navarijo-Cardenas, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision summarily affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under Article 3 of the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence adverse credibility findings, Gui v. INS, 280 F.3d 1217, 1225 (9th Cir.2002), and we deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility finding. The IJ found Navarijo-Cardenas’s testimony implausible and lacking in detail because although he claimed he was forcibly recruited by the Guatemalan army, he was unable to name or describe the weapon he used, or the rank he held. See Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147,1153 (9th Cir.1999) (approving the IJ’s finding that an alien’s testimony was suspicious given its lack of detail); see Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d 1038, 1043 (9th Cir.2001) (upholding adverse credibility finding where applicant’s testimony was implausible). Furthermore, the IJ’s credibility determination was based in part on…