AHC: Greater Central/South American involvement in WWII

IOTL several Central and South American countries contributed units to fight in WWII. Your challenge is to greatly increase this active participation (more countries involved and / or more troops committed from each).

PoD no earlier than 1939.
 
An earlier 1943 coup in Argentina, as well as a later US involvement in the war, could mean Argentina would wind up joining the Axis and end up followed by many other countries.
 
I have read that Brazil could have joined the Axis in WW2 due to its Fascist dictator.
 
I have read that Brazil could have joined the Axis in WW2 due to its Fascist dictator.

Getúlio Vargas was a rather... odd dictator. His policies would zigzag wildly between radical leftism/trade-unionism and fascism( after he became a full-fledged dictator in 1937, mostly fascism), yet he still allied with democracy in WW2. As I often say, if he had an ideology we could call it Opportunism. He just followed the mood of the time.
(Say anything you want about that but it worked. The guy remained as leader of the country for 15 years, and after a coup ousted him from power, he won the democratic elections against the guy who couped him. By a landslide.)
If by 1942 America has not joined the war(unlikely, but feasible) and Germany is doing a little better than OTL he would have no problem in siding with them.
 
Getúlio Vargas was a rather... odd dictator. His policies would zigzag wildly between radical leftism/trade-unionism and fascism( after he became a full-fledged dictator in 1937, mostly fascism), yet he still allied with democracy in WW2. As I often say, if he had an ideology we could call it Opportunism. He just followed the mood of the time.
If by 1942 America has not joined the war(unlikely, but feasible) and Germany is doing a little better than OTL he would have no problem in siding with them.
Yeah, now that I read more about him he just seems like a pretty typical Caudillo.
 
An earlier 1943 coup in Argentina, as well as a later US involvement in the war, could mean Argentina would wind up joining the Axis and end up followed by many other countries.

This one again!? While there were definitely were pro-Fascist elements among the military in Argentina, but Argentina's largest trading partner and investor before the War was Britain. In addition there was also a large anglophilic elite. Most of the population was sympathetic to the allies or just thought that they should stay out of a war that wasn't theirs.

Not to mention the surely furious reaction of the Colossus of the North if Argentina joined the Axis.
 
I have read that Brazil could have joined the Axis in WW2 due to its Fascist dictator.

Actually the Brazilian Army sent a light Corps to fight in Italy which include a couple of sqs of aircraft . the Cobra Corps as it was called was treated like shit by the allied command in the MTO . Thats why in Korea Brazil did not send troops to fight there .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Expeditionary_Force

Something to think about is how did the Allies treat there smaller allies look what they did to the Free Polish Military and government .

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I have read that Brazil could have joined the Axis in WW2 due to its Fascist dictator.

He wasn't Fascist, but rather a Peron style Populist with elements of Fascism. Also, Vargas was too clever to join the Axis, there would be nothing they could offer to Brazil but a lot to lose, while the Americans not only renewed our Army but also gave us CSN.
 
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