Dutch colonists shifted their colonial activities to Latin America from 1600. Dutch pirates established an outpost on the coast of Guyana in 1613. In 1621, the Dutch rank council approved the establishment of the Dutch West India Company. The company has extensive powers to build forts, sign treaties with the Turks, develop trade with South America, attack the Spanish fleet, and select prominent parts of Brazil as a base.
The Dutch captured Bahia in 1624 and Pernambuco in 1630. In 1637, Prince Maurice of Nassau ruled this land. Maurice expanded the land from Bahia to the Maranion River. He practiced free trade here, developed agriculture, pursued a policy of religious freedom, and planned to establish a representative government.
After Portugal gained independence from Spain in 1640, the Portuguese King Don Joao IV attempted to compromise with the Dutch and transfer the land occupied by the Dutch to the Dutch. At the same time, the Brazilian natives were hostile to the Dutch Protestantism. All this caused the Pernambuco revolution led by Hunan Fernandez de Vieira. Deviera fought a guerrilla war for 14 years. During the Anglo-Dutch War in 1654, the Dutch were evacuated from Pernambuco. Pernambuco is governed by De Vieira. In 1661, the Netherlands signed a new treaty with Portugal, and the Netherlands agreed to withdraw its territorial claims to Brazil.