How did other European countries, such as Portugal, England, and France challenge Spain's power in the Spanis?

Question

American colonies?

a) The European countries continually invaded the Spanish colonies to weaken Spain's power and control.

b) The European countries sent people from their lands to secretly settle in the colonies with the Spanish.

c) The European countries traded illegally with Spanish colonists to get around Spain's strict control over colonial trade.

d) The European countries blocked Spain's ports so that supplies could not reach the colonies.

Answer 1

That's wrong.

Portugal never challenged Spain's colonies in the Americas.

Portugal already had Brazil, that's two thirds of South America, it didn't need anything else...