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Pedro Arturo GUERRERO-REYES, a.k.a. Pedro Antonio Guerrero-Reyes, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 08-72233.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    
      Submitted May 24, 2011.
    
    Filed June 3, 2011.
    Mihail Kantchev, Law Offices of Mihail Kantchev, Inc., Van Nuys, CA, for Petitioner.
    John J.W. Inkeles, Esquire, U.S. Department Of Justice, Carl Henry McIntyre, Jr., Assistant Director, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: PREGERSON, THOMAS, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
    
      
      
         The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Pedro Arturo Guerrero-Reyes, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence. Kamalyan v. Holder, 620 F.3d 1054, 1057 (9th Cir.2010). We deny in part and grant in part the petition for review, and we remand.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s denial of CAT relief because Guerrero-Reyes failed to establish it is more likely than not that he will be tortured if returned to El Salvador. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.16(c); Ahmed v. Keisler, 504 F.3d 1183, 1201 (9th Cir.2007).

The agency found that even if Guerrero-Reyes suffered persecution in the past, there has been a fundamental change in circumstances in El Salvador such that he no longer has a well-founded fear of persecution. Substantial evidence does not support the agency’s finding, because it failed to provide a sufficiently individualized analysis of how country conditions will affect Guerrero-Reyes’ specific situation. See Garrovillas v. INS, 156 F.3d 1010, 1017 (9th Cir.1998) (“Information about general changes in the country is not sufficient.”); see also Lopez v. Ashcroft, 366 F.3d 799, 805-807 (9th Cir.2004). Accordingly, we grant the petition as to Guerrero-Reyes’ asylum and withholding of removal claims, and remand for further proceedings consistent with this disposition. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam).

Each party shall bear its own costs for this petition for review.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; GRANTED in part; REMANDED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.