WELCOMING REUNION TO HONOR DAVID FLEISCHER

On March 12, 2006 a group or Returned Peace Corps Volunteers under the leadership of Gloria Lyons and Juan E. Rosario received Dr. David Verge Fleischer (Lavras, Minas Gerais) at El Faro Hotel in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. At that time he came to the island to attend and lecture at a Political Sciences Congress held in San Juan. The reunion took place in a Sunday and was attended by four of the Brazil I Peace Corps Project and various from other projects: David Fleischer, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil Gloria Lyons Pinto, Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Espírito Santo, Brazil Esther Díaz Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil Modesto Ortiz, Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil Juan E. Rosario,Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil Dr. Manuel Huerta, Dominican Republic Garred Giles, Colombia and Ecuador Miriam Acevedo, Ecuador Eloína Rosado, Chile and Korea David Fleischer David Fleischer joined the faculty of the Universidade de Brasília in 1972, where he was Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations (1985-1989) and member of the University Council (1985-1993). He is the president of TCC-Brazil (Transparency, Consciousness and Citizenship), an NGO founded in Brasília in 1996 which is the national chapter of Transparency International. He worked in rural extension in Minas Gerais (1962-64) as a Peace Corps Volunteer and returned to the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais as a visiting professor (1969-71). He has held visiting posts at the University of Florida, SUNY-Albany and George Washington University, and has done research and consulting on legislative development and election systems in Latin America and Africa. Fleischer has published widely on Brazilian politics (Congress, elections, parties) and North-South Relations. He has performed technical consulting missions on elections systems and legislative development in Latin America (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Central America) and Africa (São Tomé & Príncipe, Mozambique and South Africa). He is also active in political risk analysis and has published the Brazil Focus -Weekly Report since 1996. Fleischer holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Florida. Info taken from http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/advisory_fleischer On March 13, 2006, Dr. Fleischer generously gave a lecture to the faculty and students at the University of Puerto Rico in Ponce. See pictures.

Juan E. Rosario, Miriam Acevedo, Garred Giles, RPCV professor at UPR-Mayaguez, and David Fleischer	Miriam Acevedo, Garred Giles, RPCV professor at UPR-Mayaguez, and David Fleischer
Juan E. Rosario, Esther Díaz and Modesto Ortiz	Gloria Lyons, David Fleischer and RPCV professor at UPR-Mayaguez
Esther Díaz and Modesto Ortiz	Modesto Ortiz, Gloria Lyons, Esther Díaz, David Fleischer and Juan E. Rosario
Esther Díaz and Modesto Ortiz	Part of the group with the owners of the El Faro Hotel
Gloria Lyons	David Fleischer and his son
Prof. Juan E. Rosario, David Fleischer and Dr. Lourdes Rodríguez at UPR-Ponce	Chancellor Prof. Jaime Marrero and Dr. David Fleischer at UPR-Ponce
	Dr. David Fleischer in the Education Department office