As relações ibéricas explicadas por um político português: Brito Camacho em Espanha
The Iberian Relations Explained by a Portuguese Politician: Brito Camacho in Spain

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the trips to Spain made by Brito Camacho, founder of the newspaper A Luta (1906) and the Partido Unionista (1912). Mainly registered in the works Impressões de Viagem, Cartas a um jornalista (1913) and Longe da Vista (1918), these trips portray a Portuguese public figure who countered an exacerbated patriotism, very much in vogue in Portugal throughout the first decades of the twentieth century, which tended to reject any attempt to bring the Iberian countries closer together. Not limited to literary descriptions of landscapes and places, in these works Brito Camacho sought not only to reflect on the relations between Portugal and Spain but also to describe both countries through their cultural traditions and lifestyles. Being relevant in terms of opinion, his writings on Spain allow us to understand which path the author believed the Iberian Peninsula could follow if Portugal and Spain joined forces to overcome the chronic crises that affected them. Through the contextualization of his ideas within the larger discussion of the concepts of Iberism and the Iberian relations, the article will analyze Camacho’s efforts to understand the relations with the neighboring country, always in a utopian sphere that collided with a patriotism instigated by the “Spanish danger,” orby the fear that Afonso XIII would invade Portugal.

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