Operation Escudo Guaraní clears 565 hectares of cannabis in Amambay
Between 4 and 18 March 2026 Paraguayan prosecutors, SENAD and CODI task-force troops eradicated 565 hectares of presumed cannabis in Amambay under Operation Escudo Guaraní, with Brazil’s federal police accompanying the drive. They also dismantled 34 precarious camps in rural colonies near Pedro Juan Caballero.
🇵🇾 Colonias Estrella, San Luis, Tres Palos, Timbori and San José, Amambay · Paraguay
En Linea Noticias reported that an inter-agency drive under Operation Escudo
Guaraní eradicated565 hectares of presumed cannabis in Amambay department
between 4 and 18 March 2026.[1]
Prosecutor Rossana Coronel of the Pedro Juan Caballero anti-drug unit led the
work with Paraguay’s National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD), CODI joint-task
troops and legal oversight, and Brazil’s Polícia Federal accompanied the
raids.[1]The same outlet said teams destroyed cultivation, drying and storage
sites in the rural colonies of Estrella, San Luis, Tres Palos, Timbori and San
José and dismantled 34 precarious camps used for production.[1]
An earlier En Linea dispatch on 16 March described part of the same campaign
around Timbori and Colonia Estrella, where CODI units reported 60 hectares
destroyed and four camps torn down, illustrating the phased incursions that
preceded the published Amambay total.[2]
En Linea Noticiasenlinea.com.pyESOperación Escudo Guaraní destruye 180.000 kg de marihuana, causando un perjuicio económico de USD 27 millones al crimen organizado
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Both sources are from En Linea Noticias; no second independent outlet repeating the 565-hectare roll-up was located.
The 565-hectare total comes from a 23 March summary; earlier En Linea dispatches describe separate parcels such as 60 hectares at Timbori without repeating the full roll-up.
Neither outlet gives a count of individual plants, only hectares cleared and camp dismantling.
No arrests were reported in these accounts.
Operations also hit Capitán Bado and other Amambay districts in the same campaign; this report uses the Amambay-wide figure tied to the colonias listed in the summary.
The map uses Pedro Juan Caballero; the named colonies lie in rural Amambay near the Brazilian border.
SENAD agents raided a rural property in Colonia Nueva Yaú, Capitán Bado, destroying 9 hectares of marijuana, 450 kg of chopped marijuana and five camps. Prosecutor Sarita Bonzi ordered everything incinerated on site while investigations continue to identify those responsible.
A joint task force destroyed three hectares of marijuana and 9,300 kilograms of the drug in the San Lorenzo community of San Pedro del Paraná, Itapúa, on 31 October 2026. Prosecutors are investigating a criminal organisation they say was buying weapons with trafficking proceeds.
SENAD’s Bella Vista Norte unit, using drones to map plots in the Timburi forest reserve, eradicated four hectares of illegal marijuana and destroyed 660 kg in 33 bales at a staging area; the agency estimated about twelve tonnes kept from the market under prosecutor Rossana Coronel’s supervision.
On 29 October 2026 Paraguay's SENAD reported eradicating four hectares of cannabis — about 12 tonnes — and destroying 1,600 kg of drying marijuana at the Indigenous colony Takua Ju in Yby Pytã, Canindeyú. No one was found at the site.
