Operation Aliança Nove destroys 265 hectares of cannabis on the Brazil–Paraguay border
Brazil’s Polícia Federal and Paraguay’s anti-drug department finished Operation Aliança Nove on 11 December 2002 after destroying 265 hectares of cannabis plantations in Amambay, across from Ponta Porã. The Federal Police estimated 583 tonnes of raw cannabis removed from the market and incinerated pressed and chopped marijuana and seeds at the sites.
🇧🇷 Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul (border with Amambay, Paraguay) · Brazil
The Polícia Federal said Operation Aliança Nove, run with Paraguay’s Departamento de Operações
Antidrogas (Dinar), destroyed at least 265 hectares of cannabis plantations on the Paraguayan side of
the border with Ponta Porã, Mato Grosso do Sul, by 11 December 2002.[1]Work began on 4 December
in Amambay department, and Perfil News reported it ended the day before the 12 December story was
published.[1]
What authorities destroyed
The Federal Police said teams cleared 141 plots, burned 74 camps and 27 presses, and seized three
crop sprayers.[1]Agents incinerated 5,120 kg of chopped marijuana, 5,017 kg of pressed marijuana
and 640 kg of seeds at the sites.[1]The agency estimated the eradication removed about 583 tonnes
of raw cannabis from the market, based on expected yield per hectare.[1]
Same operation, border controls
While Aliança Nove was under way, Brazilian police on the border announced a record 12.7-tonne
marijuana seizure in Tacuru when a wood truck was stopped on 11 December; the driver was arrested.[2]Ámbito described that haul as part of the same “Alianza 9” binational border operation with
Paraguayan officers.[2]Perfil’s account of the plantation phase does not say whether cultivators
were caught in Amambay.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The 583-tonne figure is a Federal Police estimate from expected yield per hectare, not a weighed total of plants cut in the field.
Perfil News reports conflicting per-hectare yield estimates in the same article (3,863 kg and up to 2,200 kg); the higher market estimate was used because the agency attributed it to the operation total.
Ambito’s report of a 12.7-tonne truck seizure during “Alianza 9” in Tacuru names an arrest, but Perfil’s eradication tally does not report detentions at the plantations.
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