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Argentina has officially declared its aim to buy 156 Guarani armored vehicles produced in Brazil, having signed a letter of intent.

Both Brazil and Mexico fought the Axis Powers.  Here's What You Need To Remember: In 1944, Brazil dispatched an entire division of U.S.-equipped ground troops to battle in Italy as part of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, as well as a wing of P-47 Thunderbolt fighters. We often think of the Battle of the Atlantic primarily as the conflict pitting Axis submarines against American and British convoys in the North Atlantic. However, the Kriegsmarine’s submarines also ravaged shipping off the coast of South America. A spate of attacks on Brazil’s then-neutral shipping proved to be ill jud...

Agincourt. Then there was Almirante Latorre, a super-dreadnought battleship that was being built for the Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile). She was one of two planned warships that were purchased by the South American nation, which was embroiled by a naval arms race that was started when Brazil purchased the British-built dreadnought Minas Geraes. To further show how complicated matters were at the time, Brazil also ordered an even more advanced warship, Rio de Janerio, but when the nation's rubber boom collapsed and its relations with Argentina improved, the vessel was resold to the Ottoman ...