Operación Caazapá II clears 79 hectares and burns 3,975 kg of cannabis
After five days in rural Caazapá, SENAD and CODI-FTC Sur ended Operación Caazapá II on 29 September 2026, reporting 79 hectares cleared, 12 camps dismantled and 3,975 kg of processed cannabis burned. Authorities estimated 240.9 tonnes out of circulation and more than USD 36 million in losses at Argentine market prices; no arrests were reported in the wrap-up.
On 29 September 2026 Paraguay’s anti-drug secretariat SENAD, with CODI-FTC Sur and prosecutor César
Martínez of the specialised anti-narcotics unit in Caazapá, said Operación Caazapá II had ended
after five days in the rural localities of Tava Porã (Cenote), Santa Ana, Apepú, San Francisco, San
Jorge and Emilianore in the districts of Tavaí and Abaí.[1][2]
Agents reported clearing 79 hectares of cannabis plantations and dismantling 12 camps used for
production and storage.[1][2]Inside the camps they found 3,975 kilograms of cannabis ready for
sale, which they destroyed.[1][2]Adding estimated yield from the cleared fields to that processed
stock, SENAD put about 240.9 tonnes of cannabis out of circulation and valued the hit to trafficking
groups at more than USD 36 million using average Argentine market prices.[1][2]
A mid-campaign report on 24 September described one day of the same operation at San Francisco in
Tavaí: four growing plots covering 16 hectares, 300 kilograms of chopped cannabis in 12 bags, three
support camps, and farm tools seized, with no one detained that day.[3]The wrap-up did not name
arrests for the five-day campaign.[1][2]
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Cannabis burned on site during Operación Caazapá II, as shown with the campaign wrap-up.Photo details
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.
