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Students put classroom learning to work for Honduran legislators

From the May 21, 2007, Princeton Weekly BulletinA series of meetings between a Princeton graduate student and a world-renowned musician has resulted in a training program that provided a group of Honduran legislators with a new set of tools for governing. Last fall, John Thomas III, a graduate student in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, met Honduran Congressman Aurelio Martínez — also an accomplished singer, composer and guitarist — following his performance on Princeton’s campus. Thomas mentioned that he would be in Honduras later in the semester for a policy workshop on enhancing aid effectiveness as…

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Black they continue being ignored

Write: Raúl Mendoza.Picture: Marcos Rojas. ANALYSIS ON SUBJECT AFRO IN PERU • American Afro John Thomas III, expert in International Subjects, made studies on afro communities in Peru during a year. • indicates that Been Peruvian it does not have political defined for this minority. –So that one was interested in studying the afroperuano subject in Peru? –In my country I studied in the Morehouse College, a black university, that treats these subjects. Later I went to the Dominican Republic and there I saw what is to be afrolatino. When I obtained the Fulbrigth scholarship for an independent investigation I chose…

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