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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,...

Miguel Fernández
Nov 11, 20242 min read
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Useless Landscape
Unfortunately, and especially because no one reacts, our lawmakers keep creating simplistic and unnecessary laws that, if not...

Miguel Fernández
Nov 11, 20246 min read
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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...

Miguel Fernández
Nov 11, 20243 min read
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Cats and Rats
(He Left No Friends) Since 1920, General Electric (GE) Â had a significant industrial park in Rio de Janeiro, with factories producing...

Miguel Fernández
Nov 11, 20244 min read
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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...

Miguel Fernández
Nov 11, 20243 min read
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Stay, Here You Already Know
MONTREAL Engenharia  was a 100% Brazilian company, and the name was an acronym: Montagem e Representação Industrial  (Industrial Assembly...

Miguel Fernández
Nov 11, 20242 min read
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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...

Miguel Fernández
Nov 11, 20248 min read
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Public Enterprises, Non-State-Owned
The debate about nationalization/privatization needs to be expanded. The arguments used today confuse government, the state, and the...

Miguel Fernández
Nov 11, 20242 min read
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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...

Miguel Fernández
Nov 11, 20245 min read
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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...

Miguel Fernández
Nov 11, 20244 min read
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And afterwards?
Whenever he passes the intersection of Rua Gomes Freire and Rua da Relação, he remembers this true episode that occurred around 1977,...

Miguel Fernández
Oct 29, 20243 min read
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GRADUATION SPEECH AT THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING OF U.F.R.J. – 1970
01 Â Ladies and Gentlemen Professors, to you who transmitted to us what you knew, who were our second parents, from the day we entered...

Miguel Fernández
Oct 29, 202411 min read
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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...

Miguel Fernández
Oct 29, 20244 min read
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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...

Miguel Fernández
Oct 29, 20243 min read
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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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Oct 29, 20243 min read
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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....

Miguel Fernández
Oct 29, 20243 min read
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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...

Miguel Fernández
Oct 29, 20246 min read
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The Policewoman
Madrid, 1976 Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain, died at the end of December 1975, after 40 years in power, alongside the...

Miguel Fernández
Oct 29, 20243 min read
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The Graduation
01_ It was at the end of the first year of the engineering course "at Fundão," in 1966. There were 4 classes of about 100 students each,...

Miguel Fernández
Oct 29, 20245 min read
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The Issue of Increasing Tariffs
01_ Basic Sanitation (hereinafter BS) refers to the set of services that handle Potable Water + Sanitary and Storm Sewage + Waste +...

Miguel Fernández
Oct 3, 20247 min read
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