Senad destroys 598 hectares of marijuana in Nueva Alianza VII
Paraguay's Senad, with Brazil's Federal Police and U.S. DEA support, destroyed 598 hectares of marijuana and dozens of processing camps in Amambay department during a week-long Nueva Alianza VII push reported on 23 February 2014.
🇵🇾 Amambay department (Cadete Boquerón and Colo'o area) · Paraguay
Senad, Paraguay’s anti-drug secretariat, said its agents eliminated 598 hectares of marijuana in
one week near the Brazilian border in Amambay department, in coordinated work with Brazil’s Federal
Police and support from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.[1]Efe, quoted by El Diario, said
the agency also destroyed 62 drug-storage camps, 1,620 kilograms of chopped cannabis, and 236
kilograms of seeds, and that the fields could have produced about 1,800 tonnes of marijuana mostly
for Brazil.[1]
Nueva Alianza VII
Roughly 100 agents, three helicopters, and 15 vehicles searched forested areas where Senad said large
plantations were in growth or harvest stage.[1]An earlier Senad bulletin on the same operation,
Nueva Alianza VII, reported that by 19 February teams had eradicated398 hectares spread across 126
plots near Cadete Boquerón and Colo’o, close to Capitán Bado, and burned 44 camps holding 1,320
kilograms of chopped cannabis and 116 kilograms of seed.[2]Senad technicians told the bulletin
that a harvested hectare averages about three tonnes ready for sale, which the agency used to
estimate a $35.8 million loss to traffickers from the 398-hectare phase alone.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Senad told Efe the 598 hectares could have yielded about 1,800 tonnes of marijuana; that is an agency production estimate, not weighed seized material.
A Senad bulletin on 19 February reported 398 hectares destroyed with 1,320 kilograms of chopped cannabis and 116 kilograms of seeds, while the 23 February tally rose to 598 hectares, 1,620 kilograms of chopped cannabis, and 236 kilograms of seeds; the opened sources do not list arrests.
El Diario valued the week's crop at potential output for Brazil's market; it does not break down seizures by individual raid beyond camp and hectare counts.
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.
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