Perales

MEMORANDUM **

Segundo Fermín Villena Perales, a native and citizen of Peru, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision summarily affirming the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal and for relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review the denial of asylum for substantial evidence and may reverse only if the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244-45 (9th Cir.2000). We deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the tPs finding that petitioner failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution. Because anonymous threatening phone calls and traffic incidents committed by unknown assailants fail to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution, petitioner’s asylum claim fails. See Lim v. INS, 224 F.3d 929, 936-37 (9th Cir.2000) (holding that threats against a former police officer where neither he nor his family were harmed and they remained in the Philippines for six years after the threats began did not constitute past persecution); Nagoulko…