“Without some sort of reaction, won’t we be doomed?” From the constitutionalist revolution to the constitutional council – rio grande do sul (1932 – 1934)

Abstract

In 1932, starting from São Paulo, the Constitutionalist Revolution erupted, spreading itself all the way to Rio Grande do Sul. José Antônio Flores da Cunha, federal intervenor of Rio Grande do Sul, designed a set of strategies, seeking to assure his political power in the state fighting the opposers and traitors of the Federal Government. Nonetheless, the political leaderships of both the Riograndense Republican Party and the Liberator Party, united in the Frente Única Gaúcha, did not cease their articulations against the regional political situationism. This article analyses the political intrigues in the national and state sceneries and the regrouping of the political powers between the years of 1932 and 1934.