this conflict, exerting immense pressure on the Colombian government to eradicate the NTOs, and offering considerable resources in aid of those efforts. The record similarly provides that NTOs in Colombia view themselves at war with the United States; they see the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) as their “political enemy.” See Sagaydak v. Gonzales, 405 F.3d 1035, 1044 (9th Cir.2005) (emphasis in original) (noting that alien’s work for a government agency made him the political enemy of a corrupt and powerful organization). In light of Colombia’s tumultuous and violent relationship with NTOs, and in turn with the United States’ efforts to infiltrate and control NTOs, working for the DEA would undoubtedly be considered a political opinion by the Cali cartel. See Sagaydak, 405 F.3d at 1043 (<HOLDING>); see also Briones v. INS, 175 F.3d 727, 729
recognizing that purely personal retribution is of course not persecution on account of political opinion but holding that when the alleged government corruption is inextricably intertwined with governmental operation the exposure and prosecution of such an abuse of public trust is necessarily political holding that uncovering corruption in a private organization was undeniably a political statement in the context of ukraines evolving politics holding that retaliation for opposition to government corruption can constitute persecution on account of a political opinion holding that persecution was on account of political opinion because petitioners prosecutorial investigation into acts of political corruption was by its very nature political holding that opposition to government corruption may constitute political opinion