a volunteer for

the board, which was affiliated with the Colombian Liberal Party, in January of

1999. She and her husband were two of twenty or so members and had no special

leadership role in the organization. Petitioner testified that the urban guerillas of

the FARC disapproved of the community action board because it harmed the

FARC’s efforts to recruit local youths.

      Petitioner and her husband first encountered the FARC at a soccer game in

August of 1999, when two individuals approached them, identified themselves as

FARC members, showed them small weapons, and warned them to stop their

activities and that they were being watched. After that incident, Petitioner and her

husband stopped the work they were doing with the community action board.

Thereafter, they received two threatening phone calls at their house;Subsequently, she and her family moved away from

Bogota and stayed with friends. While she was away, Petitioner’s parents received

messages threatening her and warning her not to return. Upon returning home in

February 2000, Petitioner found a letter from the FARC under her door which

declared that she was a military target. Neither Petitioner nor her husband reported

any of these threats to the police. In April 2000, Petitioner and her family moved

away from Ciudad Bolivar permanently, staying for the first three months in Patio

Bonito, about an hour away.

      In October 2000, over one year after he had ended his involvement with the

community action board, Petitioner’s husband was hit by a car as he walked down

a street in a neighborhood near Patio Bonito. The men in the