The Conventionists were a faction led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata which grew in opposition to the Constitutionalists of Venustiano Carranza and Álvaro Obregón during the Mexican Revolution.

Opposition to Huerta was led by Venustiano Carranza, along with generals Pancho Villa and Álvaro Obregón.

[1] At the Convention of Aguascalientes in the fall of 1914, the winning revolutionary factions were unable to agree on the future direction of the country, and a civil war ensued between the Constitutionalists and Conventionists.

Villa was defeated at the Battle of Celaya, followed by losses at León, Santa Ana, Aguascalientes, and Agua Prieta.

[1] Villa signed a peace treaty with Carranza's successor Adolfo de la Huerta in 1920, but died in an ambush three years later in 1923.