Paraguay receives new armoured vehicles to take fight to guerilla forces
Three 4x4 Typhoon MRAP armoured personnel carriers have already arrived in Paraguay with a fourth en route. (Photo: Paraguyan Army)
New armoured vehicles acquired by the Paraguayan military will protect personnel on operations against Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP) guerrillas.
The Paraguayan government transferred on 23 March three armoured vehicles to the military’s Internal Defence Operations Command (CODI) for internal security operations.
The 4x4s will be utilised by the Joint Task Force (FTC) ‘to combat criminal organisations that operate in the northern part of the country,’ state news agency Agencia de Información Paraguaya reported on 23 March.
Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez highlighted that the vehicles ‘will provide more security to our [military] personnel… against insecurity, against terrorism, against organised crime'.
An FTC spokesperson explained that three vehicles were delivered while ‘the fourth is en route and will arrive in
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