​This section will be dedicated to Spanish-speaking Latin American militaries.
​Due to the space, the topic will focus mainly on 20th century steel and lightweight helmets.

"As if whipped by invisible spirits, the sun steeds of time run away with the light chariot of our destiny, and nothing remains to us but to hold onto the reins with calm courage, steering the wheels, now right, now left, from the stone here and the abyss there. Where it goes---who knows? One hardly remembers from where one came." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Chilean M35 Vulkanfiber Helmet.

Before WW2, Chile among other third world countries had become interested in M35 steel helmets that had already been exported to countries such as China and had seen action in the Spanish Civil War. Chile also received some amounts of early M35s. But since WW2 broke out, Germany needed all the production. So Chile received these lightweight parade helmets and when it could not receive more, Chile continued to produce them. 

Chilean M32/34

1939. Chilean M32. As Germany was unable to send batches of M35s to Chile due to the beginning of WW2. The Germans had just invaded Checolsovakia, and supplied Chile with M32/34 helmets.

Brazilian Type Adrian Steel Helmet

1932. Brazilian Civil War. M32 Paulist Type Adrian helmets. Photo: ​Unknown author.
1940s. Brazilian soldiers with Brazilian Type Adrian Steel or fiberglass helmets. Photo: GettyImages.

Peruvian M26 Helmet

1941. Peruvian M34 (French M26) Helmet. On the right, Peruvian artillery with French Schneider 105mm muntain gun during the Ecuadorian Peruvian War.
Peruvian Soldiers with Czech ZB-26 LMG and French M36 Adrian Helmets. Image from an Youtube Video. 

Ecuadorian M33 Helmet

1941. Ecuadorian Peruvian War Era. Ecuadorian soldiers with M33 Italian helmets and what appears to be a Czech ZB-30 LGM machine gun. After the war, Ecuador equipped its army with batches of M1917 "Brodies" helmets Photos: guerrade1941.blogspot.com
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Mexican M26 and M40 Helmets

WW2 era. Mexican troops with M26 French helmets, Mendoza C-34 LMG and Mexican Mauser model 1910 rifles. Photo: LIFE.
Mendoza LMG and French M26 Helmet. They also use the M15 Adrian and a local version of the French 1926 model known as the M40. ​In the post-war period, Mexico adopted the US M1.
M1908 Mondragon self-loading rifle. 

Brazilian M1 Helmet

 WW2. Força Expedicionária Brasileira (FEB) The Brazilian Expeditionary Force in Italy with US M1 helmets and US 3-inch M5 gun. ​The helmets used by the Brazilians were supplied by the United States along with the rest of the weapons and equipment. In the 70s, Brazil began to manufacture its M1 clones.

Colombian M1 Helmet

1951. Korean War. ​Colombian Battalion soldiers receiving wire training from U.S. officers. Photo: HistoricImages

Costa Rican M1

1955. Costa Rican soldiers with US M1 helmets. Photo: HistoricImages.
1955. Costa Rican soldiers training. Photo: HistoricImages.

Cuban M1 Helmet

1957. Cuban military with US M1 helmet. Photo: HistoricImages.

Venezuelan M1 Helmet

1958. US M18 Hellcat tanks and US M1 helmets. Photo: GettyImages.

​Bolivian M34 Postwar German Lightweight Helmet

1960. Bolivian soldiers with postwar M34 German Helmets. Photo: GettyImages.

 Cuban M51 Helmets

1962. Cuban soldiers with Bulgarian M51 steel helmets.​The troops also use Belgian FN FAl.
1962. Cuban soldiers with Bulgarian M51 Bulgarian and Czech WZ53 Helmet with Belgian FN FAL.Photo: GettyImages.

Cuban Wz53

Cuban Czech Wz53 helmet, probably in Angola.
1962. Cuban soldiers with Czech Wz53 helmets. Guantanamo area. Photo: HistoricImages.
1962. Argentine soldiers with M18 Swiss helmet (Argentine M38). Photo: AP.

Nicaraguan M1 Helmet

1960. Nicaraguan soldiers with US M1 helmet. Photo: HistoricImages.

Honduran M1 Helmet

1963. Honduran military with US M1 helmet.

Dominican M1 Helmet

1963 Dominican Republic US M1 helmet. Photo: HistoricImages
1963. A handshake between a Dominican soldier and his Haitian neighbor ​country that also used the US M1.Photo: HistoricImages.
1965. ​U.S. military intervention in Domincan Republic. Photo: HistoricImages

Mexican M1 Helmet

1968. Mexican troops with US M1 helmet. Photo: GettyImages.

Salvadorean M1 Helmet

1969. Salvadorean soldiers with US M1 helmet and Madsen LMG. Photo: HistoricImahes.

Chilean M1 Hemets

1973. ​The President of Chile Salvador Allende resisting the 1973 coup before dying. The president has a US M1 helmet in use in the Chilean Army and carries an AKMS assault rifle of Soviet origin given to him by Fidel Castro. Their guards also carried Soviet weaponry.
​Chilean troops with US M1 helmets surrounding the President's resistance.

Argentine M1 Helmet

1974. Argentine US M1 helmet. In late 40s Argentina received wartime US M1 helmets. In the 60s the country continued to receive helmets from the United States through the military Aid program until this country began to manufacture them under the name M1 NATO.This series of photos was taken during the death of General Perón. Photo: Press.
1982. M1 Helmets (WW2 and postwar US M1 and Argentine made M1 NATO) from the surrendered Argentine troops after the Battle of Goose Green in 1982.

Cuban Ssh68

1982. Cuban soldiers with Ssh68 "Conehead" Soviet helmets operated the 130mm field gun M-46 in Ogaden West Africa against rebel guerrillas. 
Picture
The Cuban Troops in support of the Ethiopian Empire (Soviet allied) were fighting against this Somalian separatist guerrilla, (WSLF - West Somalian Liberation Front ) in Ogaden West Somalia, occupied by the Ethiopians since WW2.  

This rebel Somali guerrilla from the "Horn of Africa" was armed with WW2 era weapons. In these photos the most visible is the Stg44, followed by a MAB 38 Beretta machine gun and a Moschetto Mod. 91/38.

Uruguayan M1 Helmet

1972. Uruguayan troops with US M1 helmet. Photo: Getty Images

Panamanian M1 Helmet

1980s. ​General Manuel Noriega. 
​This country used the US M1 helmet for decades.

Nicaraguan Soviet Helmets

1986. SPA Soviet BM-21 "Grad" multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) The BM-21 consists of a Ural-375D 6x6 truck chassis fitted with 40 launch tubes for 122 mm unguided rockets. The troops on top of the vehicle appear to be wearing Soviet helmets and AK or AKM rifles. Before the Sandinista revolution, this country had mainly used US M1 helmets.​

Paraguayan M1 Helmet

1986. Paraguayan US M1 type helmets.​

Bolivian M1 Helmet

 2006. Bolivian military with US M1 helmets. Photo: GettyImages.