Senad destroys more than 16 tons of marijuana in Bella Vista Norte
Paraguay's Senad destroyed more than 16 tons of marijuana at a five-hectare rural property holding narco-camps in Bella Vista Norte, Amambay, on 16 June 2022, including 1.5 tons found in the drying process, along with precursors and production equipment.
Paraguay’s National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad) destroyed more than 16 tons of marijuana in an operation in Bella Vista Norte, Amambay department.[1]Agents found the drugs at a rural property of about five hectares that housed several narco-camps with marijuana crops, including 1.5 tons of the drug in the drying process.[1]
Camps and chemicals destroyed
The agents destroyed the improvised camps and the drugs along with chemical precursors and production support equipment, Paraguayan daily ABC Color reported on 17 June.[1]Senad’s Bella Vista Norte regional office was showing a growing operational presence in Concepción and Amambay, the departments holding the country’s largest marijuana plantations, Spanish daily ABC reported.[1]
The operation took place on 16 June 2022, according to Senad’s account of the destruction.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Paraguayan daily ABC Color first reported the operation on 17 June, but only the Diálogo account was opened for this report, so no second outlet confirms the details.
Neither account reports arrests made during the operation.
The same article describes a separate seizure of 38 tons of marijuana in Amambay on 5 May 2022, a different event left out here.
No separate eradicated-crop area in hectares was published for this operation.
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.
