When Brazil Dumped Coffee to Save Its Economy
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The Great Depression deepened an ongoing Brazilian political crisis that had intensified during the 1920s and resulted in a military coup and the rise to power of Getulio Vargas in 1930. Civil war broke out in 1932 as Constitutionalists from Sao Paulo rejected Vargas's provisional government.
Although ultimately unsuccessful, the rebellion against Vargas would mark a moment of transition for Brazil, and offer a grim preview of how economic shocks would shake political structures across the world in the years to come.