Medrano

MEMORANDUM **

Annabella Medrano, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying her applications 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 adverse credibility findings for substantial evidence, Li v. Ashcroft, 878 F.3d 959 , 962 (9th Cir.2004), and we deny the petition for review.

Medrano testified that guerillas killed her husband and son and attacked her, yet she failed to mention these events in her initial asylum application. Furthermore, Medrano stated in her initial application that guerillas threatened her and interrogated her at her home, yet she failed to mention these events in either her testimony or her subsequent asylum application. The agency properly concluded that these inconsistencies undermined Medrano’s credibility. See id. (affirming negative credibility finding based, in part, on prior asylum applications containing discrepancies and omitting key events); see also Wang v. INS, 352 F.3d 1250, 1259 (9th Cir.2003) (“So…