Does Argentina bored Brazil

Answer 1

Argentina, to become independent, it was a relatively empty country, concentrated in livestock and grain production. Brazil has to be free while maintaining its agricultural vocation, with populations concentrated in the northeast and southeast. Soon after the independence of Brazil in 1822, our country began a gradual rapprochement with the United States, which put him over the medium term in the sphere of American influence. Already Argentina, after independence and conflict training, has established deep ties with England, which persisted until the second half of the twentieth century.

Many more differences could point to the approach course and complementary economic and political than to the disputes. Why then the rivalry?

The first answer comes from the process of national formation of post-independence. While Argentina experienced the territorial and political fragmentation that has characterized almost all of Hispanic America, Brazil stood together and emerged as a state with incredible rapidity. Of course it meant to overcome the interests of local or national projects opposed. But the construction of the Empire remained subdued localist manifestations that were only able to express themselves, and to a limited extent, in the fragile landscape of the Regency Period.

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the opposite of Brazil, the Viceroyalty of La Plata - primarily in the region that corresponds to today's Argentina - split in the struggles for independence and allowed the emergence of local leaders, warlords, who from 1816 to hinder and delay national unification. The giant Brazilian Empire obviously frightened one Hispanic America divided and unstable. Simón Bolívar had already noted the risk and proposed as one of the goals of American unity, to be able to prevent expansionist initiatives "of the Empire," which, in this case was Brasi