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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
The Big Cheatting
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, two in the morning (A and B) and two in the afternoon (C and D). The speaker here was from class A. 02_ The calculus professor for class A was a certain Tourinho, an engineer from the Federal Railroad Network who, claiming he needed to attend a conference abroad on locomotives, was absent and left the final exams to the professor for classe

Miguel Fernández
Oct 29, 20245 min read


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


Legends
In 1972, Carlos B, at 25 years old, was an engineer at COMA (Metropolitan Drinking Water Company of Buenos Aires). He had a good salary...

Miguel Fernández
Oct 3, 20242 min read


No Jewelry, Please!
In 1978, a young woman, from Minas Gerais, an employee of Banco do Brasil, lived in Rio in a newly rented apartment on Ipiranga Street,...

Miguel Fernández
Oct 2, 20242 min read


Hierarchy
It was a Saturday in 1977, and a group of four people was outside the Army General Hospital in Benfica, Rio de Janeiro, waiting to visit...

Miguel Fernández
Oct 2, 20241 min read


The Price of Water
01_ In the 1970s, during one of the many attempts to "contain" inflation in Brazil, Médici and Delfim froze public service prices in...

Miguel Fernández
Sep 9, 20243 min read
Emigrants, Immigrants, and Migrants (Part 1)
It was around July 1969, and I was an intern at the central office of Montreal Engineering, at 90 São José Street, downtown Rio. During...

Miguel Fernández
Jul 3, 20243 min read


Bidet & Civilization
(About Bidet, or “introduction to the study of the bidet”) The civil engineering course had a course called “Building Hygiene” also known...

Miguel Fernández
May 17, 202311 min read
Muchos Padres
The UN sponsored excellent postgraduate courses at the Instituto de Hidrologia de Madrid, which was directed by eng. Rafael Heras, and...

Miguel Fernández
May 17, 20232 min read
My Beetles Talking
The first car at home was a 1961 Beetle, the color of wet brick (ceramic?), bought by my father without telling anyone: surprise. I was...

Miguel Fernández
May 17, 20236 min read
Objectivity in the US (New York, 1971)
It was in 1971 that I discovered the United States (*). It was not on the wings of PanAir, as Fernando Brant and Milton Nascimento...

Miguel Fernández
May 16, 20237 min read
Does he treat you well? (New York, 1971)
In mid-1971, I went to the United States for the first time in my life, together with 7 more selected/invited guests of the USIS (United...

Miguel Fernández
May 16, 20237 min read
How to Rob a Bank (Dead-End Invitations)
I met Leonard Goldblatt in São Paulo, in 1971, at the company that hired us to run the SAM project, Sistema Adutor Metropolitano:...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 17, 20234 min read
How to season a salad
My father was a semi-literate peasant from Orense, Galicia, Spain, who emigrated around 1930, aged about 19. He left (and arrived)...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 17, 20233 min read
Colleagues colleagues, business apart
I believe it was around 1980. Now I don't remember for sure anymore. Petrobrás launches a tender for the installation of current graphs...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 17, 20232 min read
Jealousy... ethnic? (Nisei) (Ethnic Jealousy 2)
My friend Rafael, around 1972 to 1973, single at the time, 25 years old, in the prime of his life, worked at the former COMASP (today...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 17, 20232 min read
Congress causes
The opening ceremony, at the brand new São Paulo Expo, had something new: the stage was surrounded by rows of armchairs. Some thought it...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 17, 20232 min read
Idiot Notices
As a result of the "gluten-free" text that we wrote and disseminated, we received many suggestions and contributions. We need to review...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 17, 20231 min read
Asunción, Paraguay, solteros, 1972
The 13th congress of AIDIS (Asociación Interamericana de Ingenieria Sanitária) was held in Asunción, Paraguay, in August 1972. As it is...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 17, 20234 min read
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