SENAD burns nine hectares and a camp at Estancia La Niña in Amambay
On 8 October 2026 Paraguay's SENAD special agents from Bella Vista Norte raided the forest at Estancia La Niña in Amambay, destroying a production and storage camp, eradicating nine hectares of cannabis and eliminating about 27 tonnes of marijuana while prosecutor Rossana Coronel coordinated the procedure. No arrests were reported.
🇵🇾 Estancia La Niña, Bella Vista Norte, Amambay · Paraguay
On 8 October 2026 special agents from Paraguay’s National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD)
regional office in Bella Vista Norte expanded operations in Amambay department, entering
the forest at Estancia La Niña.[1][2]
Diario HOY said they found a protection and storage hub and then a large marijuana
production camp, eradicated nine hectares of crops, burned the precarious installations
and eliminated about 27 tonnes of marijuana.[1]Nuestra Realidad Noticias gave the same
hectare and tonnage figures and said prosecutor Rossana Coronel coordinated the
intervention from the start.[2]
Neither account reports an arrest.[1][2]The photograph published with Diario HOY’s
story shows SENAD personnel during the La Niña operation.[1]
The same rural property had been hit in late September 2026 when other SENAD teams cleared
16 hectares; that earlier phase is a separate event.[1]
Photos and video
SENAD agents during the October 2026 eradication at Estancia La Niña, Amambay, published with Diario HOY's report.Photo details
Diario HOY's page carries a single photograph for this story; Nuestra Realidad Noticias republished the facts without an operation image.
SENAD had eradicated 16 hectares and about 49 tonnes at the same estancia on 30 September 2026 under a different prosecutor; this report covers only the 8 October follow-up.
Neither outlet reports arrests or names those responsible for the camp.
Estancia La Niña is named but not mapped precisely; coordinates mark Bella Vista Norte in Amambay.
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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.
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