Studies Economics at the School of Economics and Finances at Rua do Quelhas. Add to these, the sarcasm of Alexandre O'Neill and the surrealistic criticism of M rio Henrique Leiria, both of them friends and companions in several adventures. Even in things of the imagination. Now overseas, together with Agostinho Neto, Marcelino dos Santos and Vasco Cabral, comes out in favor of the independence of what will eventually become new African nations. It has adapted itself to the vastness of the World.
Brazil suffers a military coup d' tat .
Fernando finds employment with a company in Fortaleza, in the northern state of Cear . For two years, he has a chance to see, in loco , the chasm between displays of luxury and abject poverty, manifestations of explicit vampirism. He returns to S. Paulo. Learns and applies principles and skills of industrial rationalization. He works full-time in the production cooperatives movement.