Editing Privateer (section)

===Spain and its colonies===
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[[File:Amaro Pargo.jpg|thumb|left|The Spanish [[Amaro Rodríguez Felipe|Amaro Pargo]] was one of the most famous corsairs of the [[Golden Age of Piracy]].]]
[[File:Miguel Enriquez.jpg|thumb|[[Miguel Enríquez (privateer)|Miguel Enríquez]].]]
When Spain issued a decree blocking foreign countries from trading, selling or buying merchandise in its Caribbean colonies, the entire region became engulfed in a power struggle among the naval superpowers.<ref name="banderas">{{cite news|url=http://www.adendi.com/archivo.asp?num=39187&year=1991&month=1&keyword=|title=En busca de Cofresí|author=Carmen Dolores Trelles|newspaper=[[El Nuevo Día]]|language=es|date=1991-01-09|access-date=2013-11-12|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131205174316/http://www.adendi.com/archivo.asp?num=39187&year=1991&month=1&keyword=|archive-date=2013-12-05}}</ref> The newly independent United States later became involved in this scenario, complicating the conflict.<ref name="banderas"/> As a consequence, Spain increased the issuing of privateering contracts.<ref name="banderas"/> These contracts allowed an income option to the inhabitants of these colonies that were not related to the Spanish conquistadores. The most well-known privateer corsairs of the eighteenth century in the Spanish colonies were [[Miguel Enríquez (privateer)|Miguel Enríquez]] of Puerto Rico and [[Campuzano Polanco family#Jose Campuzano Polanco (1689-1760)|José Campuzano-Polanco]] of [[Captaincy General of Santo Domingo|Santo Domingo]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GDoTAQAAIAAJ&q=Campuzano|title=La defensa marítima en la Capitanía General de Venezuela, 1783–1813|last=Bracho Palma|first=Jairo|publisher=Instituto Nacional de los Espacios Acuáticos e Insulares|year=2005|page=87}}</ref> Miguel Enríquez was a Puerto Rican [[mulatto]] who abandoned his work as a shoemaker to work as a privateer. Such was the success of Enríquez, that he became one of the wealthiest men in the New World. His fleet was composed of approx. 300 different ships during a career that spanned 35 years, becoming a military asset and reportedly outperforming the efficiency of the [[Armada de Barlovento]]. Enríquez was knighted and received the title of [[Don (honorific)|Don]] from [[Philip V of Spain|Philip V]], something unheard of due to his ethnic and social background. One of the most famous privateers from Spain was [[Amaro Rodríguez Felipe|Amaro Pargo]].