Miguel Fernández
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Our professional environment in São Paulo during the 1970s and 1980s included two very well-known and highly competent Niseis: Eduardo...
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Miguel Fernández
Nov 113 min read
Dinner of Retaliation
I was about 12 years old when I heard this one: For those who don’t know, in the 1950s, Brazil was governed by Getúlio Dornelles...
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Miguel Fernández
Nov 112 min read
Itararé, the second battle that never happened
Around 1972, I went to do a study-project for the city of Londrina. It was about the feasibility of an integrated water supply system,...
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Miguel Fernández
Nov 116 min read
Useless Landscape
Unfortunately, and especially because no one reacts, our lawmakers keep creating simplistic and unnecessary laws that, if not...
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Miguel Fernández
Nov 113 min read
In vino veritas
1962 (63?) _ In vino veritas Carlos Lacerda, on the Military and Priests Written on December 4, 2017 I believe it was a Saturday...
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Miguel Fernández
Nov 114 min read
Cats and Rats
(He Left No Friends) Since 1920, General Electric (GE) had a significant industrial park in Rio de Janeiro, with factories producing...
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Miguel Fernández
Nov 113 min read
Photographing Souls
In certain places around the world, and in specific situations, it's better to take photos discreetly. And there are plenty of reasons...
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Miguel Fernández
Nov 112 min read
Stay, Here You Already Know
MONTREAL Engenharia was a 100% Brazilian company, and the name was an acronym: Montagem e Representação Industrial (Industrial Assembly...
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Miguel Fernández
Nov 118 min read
Eureka!
Taxi Drivers, the 4th Tribe It was June 1976, and since the beginning of January, Fernando had been living at Casa do Brasil (a student...
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Miguel Fernández
Nov 112 min read
Public Enterprises, Non-State-Owned
The debate about nationalization/privatization needs to be expanded. The arguments used today confuse government, the state, and the...
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Miguel Fernández
Nov 115 min read
Emigrants, Immigrants, and Migrants (Part 2)
Emigrant : Someone who leaves their homeland voluntarily to live in another place (or places), with no expectation of returning in the...
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Miguel Fernández
Nov 114 min read
Emigrants, Immigrants, and Migrants (Part 1)
It was July 1969, or thereabouts, and I was an intern at the central office of Montreal Engenharia, at 90 São José Street, in downtown...
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Miguel Fernández
Oct 293 min read
And afterwards?
Whenever he passes the intersection of Rua Gomes Freire and Rua da Relação, he remembers this true episode that occurred around 1977,...
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Miguel Fernández
Oct 2911 min read
GRADUATION SPEECH AT THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING OF U.F.R.J. – 1970
01 Ladies and Gentlemen Professors, to you who transmitted to us what you knew, who were our second parents, from the day we entered...
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Miguel Fernández
Oct 294 min read
Sisters-in-law and Brothers-in-law
In the years 1962-1963, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul was Leonel Brizola, married to the sister of then-president João Goulart, whom...
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Miguel Fernández
Oct 293 min read
Outlaw Cowboy
It was 2023 and I was visiting another state for work when I met some colleagues who were discussing the revocation of the diploma and...
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Miguel Fernández
Oct 293 min read
Quotas 01
At least 50.02%(?) of women, 15.92%(?) of Afro-descendants, 9.15%(?) of homosexuals, 26.8% of Christians and a maximum of 49.5%, at least...
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Miguel Fernández
Oct 293 min read
Ethnic Jealousies 01, O Gói
It was 1962-63, we were 16 years old and all the girls caught the attention of me and José, my colleague and friend to this day....
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Miguel Fernández
Oct 296 min read
Anselmo Paschoa
In the country of football and carnival, a Black person choosing nuclear physics as a field of activity would already be an affront to...
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Miguel Fernández
Oct 293 min read
The Policewoman
Madrid, 1976 Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain, died at the end of December 1975, after 40 years in power, alongside the...
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