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The Directivist Revolution was an waged in Cervera between the Congressionalist government of the Cerveran Third Republic and Directivists and their  allies united in the Popular Liberation Front of Cervera. Born out of the instability of the Third Republic following the end of SiWallqanqa occupation in 1925, the revolution began following the suspension of elections and declaration of emergency powers by incumbent Cerveran president Federico Chavez Bustamante in 1928, reneging on a prior agreement with Directivist leadership to conduct open and fair elections as scheduled. Subsequent fighting, which assumed both a and  format, claimed approximately 80,000 lives on both sides, with the majority of the dead being from disease. Heavy fighting also resulted in the death or displacement of approximately 100,000 civilians, decimating the predominantly agrarian economy. Directivist forces declared victory in 1931 with the fall of Matanzas, though pockets of Congressionalist control remained throughout the southern highlands and Macaré River basin until 1934.