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On September 7, 1822, Brazil proclaimed its independence from Portugal, which would be truly achieved the following year, with the end of the battles against the Portuguese in Bahia. Even before that, the Spanish colonies had already begun a complicated process of independence that would lead to the formation of 18 different countries. But how is it that, while the Hispanics were so divided, Brazil remained united? Camilla Costa explains in this video. Also read the original report on the subject: https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil... Did you like it? Subscribe to the BBC News Brasil channel! To read more news, click here: https://www.bbc.com/portuguese Video sources: AMATE, Virginia Gil. From Spanish to Americans: Variants of Criollism in the XVlll Century. https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Arraba... ALENCASTRO, Luiz Felipe de. The Treatment of the Living: Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2000. BARRUCHO, Luís. Why did Brazil remain one while Spanish America was divided into several countries? BBC News Brasil. https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil... BETHENCOURT, Francisco. “Political Configurations and Local Powers”. In: BETHENCOURT and CURTO (dir.). Portuguese Maritime Expansion, 1400-1800. Lisbon: Edições 70, 2010, p. 207-264. BOSCHI, Caio. “The University of Coimbra and the Intellectual Formation of the Colonial Mining Elites”. Historical Studies, v. 4, n. 7 (1991), p. 100-111. MONTEIRO, Nuno Gonçalo. “The Circulation of Elites in the Braganza Empire (1640-1808): Some Notes”. Tempo, v. 2, n. 14, n. 27 (2009), p. 65-81. POSADA, Edgar Vieira. The formation of regional spaces in the integration of Latin America. https://bit.ly/2DHLsmI TEPASKE, John Jay. The financial crisis of the Viceroyalty of New Spain at the end of the colony. http://secuencia.mora.edu.mx/index.ph... RUSSEL-WOOD, AJR “Rulers and agents”. In: BETHENCOURT and CHAUDHURI (dir.). History of Portuguese expansion. Volume 3: Brazil in the balance of the Empire (1697-1808). Lisbon: Círculo de Leitores, 1998, p. 169-192. ___. “Center and peripheries in the Luso-Brazilian world, 1500-1808”. Brazilian Journal of History, v. 18, n. 36 (1998), p. 187-250.