This paper analyzes the information that was disseminated in the Netherlands and Spain—and other territories connected to the latter such as Portugal and Flanders under Habsburg rule—about the taking by the Dutch of the city of San Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, and his subsequent recovery by a Spanish-Portuguese expedition (1624–1625). Despite the different communicative structures, these national journalisms shared professional strategies to inform about the conflicts that occurred in the distant Brazilian lands. Given the difficulty of informing promptly and truthfully, the discourse of the Dutch and Spanish newspapers about their colonies alternates between the information explosion and silence, depending on the alternation between victories and defeats in American territory. News was as connected as were the empires that controlled vast territories in Europe and America, despite the ideological and religious differences of the era.

本文分析了在荷兰和西班牙——以及与后者有关的其他领土，如葡萄牙和哈布斯堡统治下的佛兰德斯——传播的关于荷兰人占领巴西圣萨尔瓦多巴伊亚市的信息，以及他随后的西班牙 - 葡萄牙探险队（1624-1625）恢复。尽管传播结构不同，但这些国家新闻机构共享专业策略来报道发生在遥远的巴西土地上的冲突。鉴于难以及时和真实地通报情况，荷兰和西班牙报纸关于其殖民地的话语在信息爆炸和沉默之间交替，这取决于美国领土上的胜利和失败之间的交替。