I would say that both languages are similar and we can with a little bit of effort undertand each other, but fluency demand a lot of study.
Most widely spoken is Spanish and Portuguese is by far more difficult to master.
Well we could say that Spanish is a language with great chances to be the most used language apart from English for internacional communication because of developing countries but I woudn't say it's better.
I speak English, Japanese, Portuguese and a bit of Spanish all of these are equally important and it has its' individual value.