United States Eleventh Circuit

Petition for review of denial of asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture is granted where: 1) an attack on petitioner in Colombia by members of FARC was politically motivated; and 2) was one in a series of threats against her for her humanitarian activities for the Liberal Party. The case must be remanded to allow the IJ to decide whether the threats and attack amount to persecution, and to require petitioner to show she is unable to avail herself of the protection of her home country.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/06/2007
• Published 07/06/2007

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and STAGG, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roberto Matus, Roberto Matus, P.A., Miami, FL, for Lopez.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anthony Cardozo Payne, David V. Bernal, Jamie M. Dowd, U.S. Dept. of Justice, OIL, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, Heather Steiner Tewksbury, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.