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Comonfort, hoping to establish a more moderate government, found himself triggering a civil war and began to back away from Zuloaga. On January 11, 1858, Comonfort resigned and went into exile. He was constitutionally succeeded by Juárez as president of the Supreme Court. The nation's states subsequently chose to side with either the government of Zuloaga, based in Mexico City, or that of Juárez, which established itself at the strategic port of Veracruz. Initial

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