Agreement to form crews in Collana
The Collana community agreed in a general assembly to form teams to identify cattle rustlers and hand them over to the police, an act considered treason by the PCP-SL, which sought to monopolize justice against cattle rustling.
On March 23, 1989, the community of Collana in Livitaca, Chumbivilcas, agreed in a general assembly to form squads to identify the cattle rustlers and hand them over to the police. This act was considered by the PCP-SL as an act of treason, since the subversive group intended to maintain its monopoly of justice against cattle rustling. The communal patrols, called 'mesnadas' by the PCP-SL, were considered a central enemy since their expansion in Ayacucho in 1985. This community decision represented a challenge to the authority that the PCP-SL tried to exercise in rural areas.