Tem-Martinez

MEMORANDUM **

Roberto Tem-Martinez, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of an immigration judge’s order denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence. See Pedro-Mateo v. INS, 224 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir.2000). We deny the petition for review.

Tem-Martinez testified that he received three threatening notes from a guerilla organization, that such notes were commonly used by guerillas attempting to recruit members, and that he thought the guerillas may have been interested in him because he had volunteered at a school several years earlier, and his father had been a member of the Guatemalan civil patrol. Because Tem-Martinez presented no evidence that guerillas attempted to recruit him based on his actual or imputed political beliefs, substantial evidence supports the determination that he failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of political opinion. See id. at 1151 (a guerilla organization’s attempts to…