Brazil, Constitutionalist Revolution (aka Paulista War or Brazilian Civil War) of 1932. Uprising of the population of the Brazilian state of São Paulo against the 1930 coup d&#x27;état when Getúlio Vargas forcibly assumed the nation&#x27;s Presidency; Vargas was supported by the military and the political elites of Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and Paraíba. The movement grew out of local resentment from the fact that Vargas ruled by decree, unbound by a Constitution, in a provisional government.