Decolonization of the Americas was during the official Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848. In 1898, in the Greater Antilles, the United States won the Spanish–American War and occupied Cuba and Puerto Rico, ending Spanish territorial control in the Americas. Unlike the Spanish, the Portuguese did not divide their colonial territory in the Americas. The captaincies they created were subdued to a centralized administration in Salvador which reported directly to the Crown in Lisbon. Therefore, it is not common to refer to "Portuguese America" (like Spanish America, Dutch America, etc.), but rather to Brazil, as a unified colony since its very beginnings. As a
Portuguese New Zealanders Pereira, was the only victim of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in the port of Auckland. On the 10th of July, 1985, two French DGSE agents bombed the Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace's flagship, which was scheduled to depart New Zealand to disrupt nuclear testing in French Polynesia. This was to date the only foreign attack on New Zealand's soil. Today, the Portuguese are part of an even larger Portuguese-speaking community in New Zealand, that also includes Brazilians, East Timorese and Macanese. Portuguese New Zealanders Portuguese New Zealanders are either Portuguese who migrated to New Zealand, or New Zealanders of Portuguese