Miguel Fernández y Fernández, engineer

Someone once said that the best partner is the one we meet at a glance because we haven't had time to notice their flaws. Now, imagine a...

Our professional environment in São Paulo during the 1970s and 1980s included two very well-known and highly competent Niseis: Eduardo...

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...

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,...

Unfortunately, and especially because no one reacts, our lawmakers keep creating simplistic and unnecessary laws that, if not...

1962 (63?) _ In vino veritas Carlos Lacerda, on the Military and Priests Written on December 4, 2017 I believe it was a Saturday...

(He Left No Friends) Since 1920, General Electric (GE)  had a significant industrial park in Rio de Janeiro, with factories producing...

In certain places around the world, and in specific situations, it's better to take photos discreetly. And there are plenty of reasons...

MONTREAL Engenharia  was a 100% Brazilian company, and the name was an acronym: Montagem e Representação Industrial  (Industrial Assembly...

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...

The debate about nationalization/privatization needs to be expanded. The arguments used today confuse government, the state, and the...

Emigrant : Someone who leaves their homeland voluntarily to live in another place (or places), with no expectation of returning in the...

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...

Whenever he passes the intersection of Rua Gomes Freire and Rua da Relação, he remembers this true episode that occurred around 1977,...

01  Ladies and Gentlemen Professors, to you who transmitted to us what you knew, who were our second parents, from the day we entered...

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...

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...

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...

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....

In the country of football and carnival, a Black person choosing nuclear physics as a field of activity would already be an affront to...