Latin America during World War II on the battlefield in Europe was divined after the Casablanca Conference. The President of the U.S., Franklin D. Roosevelt on his way back from Morocco met the President of Brazil, Getulio Vargas, in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, this meeting is known as the Potenji River Conference, and defined the creation of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force. In 1940, after he expressed his concern to President Franklin D. Roosevelt over Nazi influence in Latin America, Nelson Rockefeller of the famous family was appointed to the new position of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American
Ricardo Viana Vargas project management from George Washington University and training in strategy and innovation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Vargas has been a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 1997 and served on the PMI’s Board of Directors from 2007-2009. He was the first Brazilian member of the Institute’s Board. Vargas became the first Latin American chair of the Board in 2009. He has written multiple books on project management. Vargas also served as a reviser to the project management manual A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) published by PMI and chaired the Translation Verification