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
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