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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Porto Alegre, where the Legislature of Rio Grande do Sul has been split between the majority supporters of President Vargas and the minority party of ambitious swashbuckling Governor Francisco Flores da Cunha, ominous telegrams began flying up to Rio de Janeiro. Majority leaders accused Governor Flores da Cunha of mobilizing his crack State army of 30,000 men to gain control of the Legislature. He was, moreover, "liberating criminals who are infesting the capital and the interior," planning to seize the State's telegraph and telephone system...
Since it was Strong Man Flores da Cunha, a doughty soldier who can tie a steer singlehanded, who helped boost his friend into the Presidential Palace in 1930, Strong Man Vargas knew he had better act quickly. Back to Porto Alegre flashed a Presidential order relieving Governor Flores da Cunha of his responsibilities as executor of the "state of war" in Rio Grande do Sul, handing them over to General Emilio Lucio Esteves, the State's Federal military commandant. This order in effect gave General Esteves a free hand with 17,000 Federal troops against anything General Flores da...
Roared Flores da Cunha: "I propose to remain within the Constitution and the law although I will do all to assure autonomy of Rio Grande and to preserve the dignity of its citizens...
...population, presidential politics are the private affair of three kingpin States: Sao Paulo (coffee & cotton), rich, populous Minas Geraes, whose plateaus sparkle with manganese and diamonds, and most of all, in recent years, of cattle-raising, tobacco-growing Rio Grande do Sul (see map). What made big Francisco Flores da Cunha pop so explosively in Rio Grande last week was his shrewd suspicion that Getulio Vargas is contemplating too bold a gambit in this intimate game of chess...
Coffee 6 Cattle. It was supposedly for the honor of Rio Grande do Sul that in 1930 General Flores da Cunha's Gauchos rode tumultuously into Rio de Janeiro, hitched their horses to the obelisk on bosky Avenida Rio Branco, bottled old President Washington Luis up in jail and helped Getulio Vargas become President of Brazil. Washington Luis and President-elect Julio Prestes were both from Sao Paulo which was then sorely handicapped by the collapse of the world coffee market and unable to fight back. Since most of Brazil's 20 States, which figure in the world...