Military detachment installed in Comas
In 1991, a military detachment was installed in Comas, which became a counter-subversive base in July 1992. The peasant patrols maintained control of internal order with relative autonomy until the Army withdrew in 1994.
The military detachment installed in Comas in 1991 became a counter-subversive base in July 1992. Until then, since the first months of 1990, the peasant patrols were in charge of controlling internal order and the administration of justice, with relative autonomy, assuming all the functions of the communal and local authorities (governors and lieutenant governors), municipal authorities and the justice system, with the endorsement of the military. The ronderos sometimes committed abuses that generated complaints. In 1994, army troops withdrew from Tulumayo, and control of the region continued under the control of the Tulumayo peasant patrols, which had achieved, together with army operations, the definitive destruction of the Shining Path groups throughout the basin.