Cattle ranching and social conflict

On April 28, 2019, after flying over Chibiriquete Park and inspecting the results obtained in a military operation that recovered 120 deforested hectares, Iván Duque, who was the president at that time, announced the start of Operation Artemisa, an inter-institutional strategy in which the Police, the Army, the Prosecutor's Office, National Parks and the Ministry of Environment participated to pursue and capture the people responsible for the deforestation of the Amazon.

In his speech, Duque recalled an action done at the end of October 2018 in the Los Picachos Natural Park and said: “I also want to thank the presence of the attorney general of the nation because we have been working with him hand in hand. Last year, we carried out the operation in Los Picachos Park, not only prosecuting criminals behind ecocide, but also advancing in terms of the elimination of ownership of assets, that are the materialization of the disastrous development of deforestation.”