more generalized animosity to the opposite sex, an assertion of a political aspiration and the desire to suppress opposition to it.  Olimpia was not permitted by Zuniga to hold an opinion to the contrary.  When by flight, she asserted one, she became exposed to persecution for her assertion.  Persecution threatened her because of her political opinion.


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Olimpia has suffered persecution because of one specific political opinion Zuniga attributed to her.  She is, she has been told by Zuniga, a subversive.  Her husband left the country, a policeman has been told, because she is a subversive.  If she complained of Zuniga, she was informed, she would be killed as a subversive.  One cannot have a more compelling example of a political opinion generatingForce she has been subjected to his brutality.  Her subversive doubts about governmental law-abidingness have made her the prey of a hunter of subversives.  Characterized as a subversive, she was forced to submit to Zuniga.


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Even if she had no political opinion and was innocent of a single reflection on the government of her country, the cynical imputation of political opinion to her is what counts under both statutes.  In deciding whether anyone has a well-founded fear of persecution or is in danger of losing life or liberty because of a political opinion, one must continue to look at the person from the perspective of the persecutor.  If the persecutor thinks the person guilty of a political opinion, then the person is at risk.


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Seventeen years