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Dealing with Zombies
VARIG, was the world-renowned Brazilian airline, until when it went bankrupt in 2006 (or was bankrupt, depending on the interlocutor)....

Miguel Fernández
Apr 14, 20234 min read
Pajelanças, Traditions and Prejudices
It was March 2006, in the maternity ward of Casa de Saúde São José, in the Humaitá neighborhood, in the south zone of Rio de Janeiro, a...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 14, 20233 min read


Speaking English
Work on the Rio Niterói Bridge began in January 1969. The three central spans are made of steel, the design, some cuts, welds and...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 12, 20237 min read
Curse words
In 1970, in block D of the EEUFRJ, in the back, the engineer Eduardo Pacheco Jordão, taught the subject of sanitation-sewers, which he...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 10, 20232 min read
Cosmopolitan
It's early 1988 and I'm in Paramus, New Jersey, at my friend LGoldblatt's house. The day before we had a meeting at LouisBerger...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 10, 20232 min read
The bad and the good (capitalism & socialism)
On February 1, 2019, a Friday, the then state secretary of finance for the state of Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Cláudio Rodrigues de Carvalho,...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 10, 20234 min read
Brazilian Peloponnese
Engineer Hipérides Macedo, from Ceará, an eminent professional, author of an interesting prose book on hydrology, state secretary of...

Miguel Fernández
Apr 6, 20231 min read
No casco velho de Coimbra
At a Siulbesa (Luso-Brazilian Sanitary Engineering Symposium), around 2010, I rented a car and went for a walk in Coimbra with a friend....

Miguel Fernández
Apr 6, 20231 min read
Ethnic Jealousy 3, Alfacinhas
01_ I did my military service from December 1966 to February 1969 at the EFORM School for Training Officers of the Navy Reserve. Do not...

Miguel Fernández
Mar 12, 20217 min read
Ethnic Jealousy in the Altiplano (CE2, Xenophobia)
Around 1990 I got involved in the design and supervision of the work and the “start-up” (puesta-in-marcha) of the “Hampaturi to...

Miguel Fernández
Nov 1, 20194 min read
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