MINUSTAH Brazilian Marines Defender 90 (Haiti 2017)
Brazilian Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais) Land Rover Defender 90 soft top in United Nations white, run with its doors removed by the Brazilian battalion of MINUSTAH in Haiti for checkpoint and patrol duties, photographed in May 2017 in the mission's final months.
History
Brazil led the military component of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) from 2004 until the mission closed in 2017, and its marines — the Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais — took their own Defenders, the Brazilian Navy having bought Defender 90 and 110 soft tops in the 1990s and 2000s. In Haiti they were repainted UN white with UN fleet plates and used for the endless checkpoint and patrol work in Port-au-Prince's districts.
The Wikimedia Commons photographs from May 2017 show one of the 90s at a checkpoint: doors taken off for the heat and quick dismounts, the olive canvas tilt left up, a white A-bar carrying two whip aerials, the CFN fleet number stencilled across the bonnet and on the bumper, UN plates and the spare on the rear door. The registry model is the Defender 90 soft top with the door skins and door tops removed to open the apertures, and those fittings added.
Imagery
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Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover (Defender 90 soft top)
- Manufactured
- Brazilian Navy Defender purchases (approximate); photographed May 2017
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais / MINUSTAH (doors removed, UN repaint)
- Engine type
- Land Rover 300Tdi / Td5 2.5 L turbo-diesel (not stated in the source)
- Production run
- unknown
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Operated in
- Brazil, Haiti, United Nations
- Status
- historic
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Defender
- Wheels
- 4
- Nominal wheelbase
- 90″
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Sources & citations
Researched sources
- Missão de Paz no Haiti 20170521 094044 (51986818778) ↗ — Wikimedia Commons (accessed 2026-09-12)
- Category: Land Rover Defender in the Corps of Naval Fusiliers ↗ — Wikimedia Commons (accessed 2026-09-12)
Catalogue references
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miss%C3%A3o_de_Paz_no_Haiti_20170521_094044_(51986818778).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miss%C3%A3o_de_Paz_no_Haiti_20170521_094044_(51986818778).jpg ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-12T09:13:09.026Z · status: researched