attributes to his victims.” Id. See also Ramirez Rivas v. INS, 899 F.2d 864, 867 (9th Cir.1990). The record here compels the conclusion that the Cali cartel , a narco-traf ficking organization (NTO) in Colombia, would impute a political opinion to Indaburo and Gamarra. The record contains extensive evidence demonstrating that in Colombia, the NTOs have a complicated relationship with the Colombian government, in which they are engaged in a de facto civil war with the government for control of the levers of political and economic power, and at the same time exercise considerable power over the operations of government by corrupting law enforcement and other government officials. The record also conclusively establishes that the United States is deeply entangled Cir.1999) (en banc) (<HOLDING>). Despite the fact that working for the DEA
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 attempted conscription by a guatemalan guerrilla group did not constitute persecution on account of a political opinion where petitioner failed to show that the group was motivated by his political opinion holding that brioness activity as a confidential informer who sided with the phillipine military in a conflict that was political at its core certainly would be perceived as a political act by the group informed upon  holding that a plaintiffs retaliation claim is cognizable even in the absence of protected activity as long as his employer perceived him to be engaged in such activity holding that fathers military service alone was neither political opinion nor sufficient to establish imputed political opinion