Julio Matul-Hernandez v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Julio Matul-Hernandez seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) order denying his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We deny the petition for review.

I. Background

Matul-Hernandez was born in San Francisco, La Union, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala: He was forced into the Guatemalan army as a teenager, and after approximately a year and a half, he deserted during a training exercise in the mountains. Matul-Hernandez left Guatemala at age sixteen or seventeen and crossed into Mexico. He lived in Cancún, Mexico, and worked in a fruit market there for…