South America

The Bolivian army bought their first armored vehicles in 1931. Five vehicles saw combat in the Chaco War. Before World War 2, they only bought some Italian CV.33 tankettes. In 1978 and 1979 they bought a large amount of tanks and armored cars which are still the main armored force.

The first armored vehicle of Ecuador was a Marmon-Herrington tank in 1942. The army extended afterwards.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) was formed in 1965. The first armored vehicles were acquired in 1971.

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Suriname gained independence from the Netherlands in 1975, so the army is relatively young. The Dutch army aided Suriname with some DAF vehicles and that's where the armored story starts. In 1984 Suriname bought several vehicles from Brazil. In 2013 they acquired one Colombian Hunter TR 12 and they will probably buy more in the near future.

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