F. Nail on March 23, 1984.  On May 9, 1985, The Board of Immigration Appeals upheld Judge Nail's decision and dismissed her appeal.  It found that "the evidence attests to mistreatment of an individual, not persecution" and cited In re Pierre, 15 I & N Dec. 461 (BIA 1976) (a wife threatened with death by her husband, a high Haitian official, did not show persecution for a political opinion even though the government of Haiti would not restrain her husband).  The Board declared as to the plight of Olimpia that it was "not unsympathetic with this deplorable situation" but "the fact remains that such strictly personal actions do not constitute persecution within the meaning of the Act."


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Statutory Framework.    Two statutory schemes are(9th Cir.1984) (Pregerson, J.).  The persecution has been conducted by a member of the Armed Force, a military power that exercises domination over much of El Salvador despite the staunchest efforts of the Duarte government to restrain it.  Zuniga had his gun, his grenades, his bombs, his authority and his hold over Olimpia because he was a member of this powerful military group.


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Uncontradicted evidence, then, pointed to both a clear probability of persecution and a well-founded fear of persecution.  Olimpia relates that Zuniga said to her that if she ever left him, "[H]e would look for me, for my person, in all El Salvador."    El Salvador is a small country.  We take judicial notice of reports that persons being deported there