History of South America the European theatre; however, several countries had skirmishes with German U-Boats and cruisers in the Caribbean and South Atlantic. Mexico sent a fighter squadron of 300 volunteers to the Pacific, the "Escuadrón 201" were known as the Aztec Eagles ("Aguilas Aztecas"). The Brazilian active participation on the battle field 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
National Industrial Training Service of the State of Rio de Janeiro 1941, Euvaldo Lodi and Roberto Simonsen managed the then President Getulio Vargas granted companies the responsibility to create an entity of industrial education: "Soon after, in January 1942, Getulio Vargas decreed the creation of SENAI. It was established that the SENAI, born under the name of National Service of Industrialists' Training, would be maintained through contributions from industry employers. Its scope was broadened to the "transport, communication and fishing sectors, which, conserving the acronym, was renamed the National Industrial Training Service of the State of Rio de Janeiro, by Decree law in 4936, of 7 November 1942". In the decades