Gonzalez

MEMORANDUM **

Mateo Miguel Gonzalez, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, dismissing an appeal from the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that Gonzalez did not establish a well-founded fear of future persecution because the IJ’s individualized country conditions analysis of two State Department reports reflects that, despite measured progress towards enacting the provisions of the 1996 Peace Accords, the guerillas have disbanded since the Peace Accords were implemented and the umbrella guerilla alliance has dissolved to devote itself to legal political activity. See Gonzalez-Hernandez v. Ashcroft, 336 F.3d 995, 1000-01 (9th Cir.2003). Furthermore, because the incident precipitating Gonzalez’s departure occurred approximately twenty years ago, substantial evidence supports…