Creation of the OPASM (Prelatural Office of Social Action of Moyobamba).
The Catholic Church created OPASM on August 30, 1988 through an agreement between CEAS, CAAAP and the Prelature of Moyobamba, based in Tarapoto, to respond to the violence in San Martin. The institution focused on legal advice to victims and pacification programs, promoting the creation of peasant patrols.
In the face of the violence that had been unleashed throughout the department of San Martin, the Catholic Church decided to open the Prelatural Office of Social Action of Moyobamba (OPASM), with headquarters in Tarapoto. The OPASM was created on August 30, 1988 after the agreement of three institutions: Episcopal Commission for Social Action (CEAS), Amazonian Center for Anthropology and Practical Application (CAAAP) and the Prelature of Moyobamba. OPASM had two priority areas of attention: the area of legal advice, to follow up on the cases of victims of violence, and the area of training whose objective was to develop programs to promote creativity and generate alternative responses to pacification, as well as to assist victims of political violence in the psycho-affective field. With the promotion and strengthening of pacification promoted by OPASM, important institutions such as the peasant patrols in San Martin were formed.