Legal Opinion
Martinez-Buendia v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 10, 2010No. 09-3792PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Doris Martinez-Buendia appeals her denial of asylum and withholding of removal. Martinez-Buendia is a fifty-year-old optometrist from Colombia. She came to the United States in 2005 and applied for asylum on the ground that she was being persecuted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia— commonly known as the “FARC”) on account of her anti-FARC political position and her involvement with a social group called the “Health Brigades.” About two years before Martinez-Buendia fled Colombia, the FARC began…
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