9 hectares and 450 kg destroyed in Capitán Bado raid
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.
🇵🇾 Colonia Nueva Yaú, Capitán Bado, Amambay · Paraguay
Agents of SENAD’s Pedro Juan Caballero regional office raided a rural property
in Colonia Nueva Yaú, Capitán Bado, Amambay.[1][2]Local agents carried out the
raid with the support of SENAD Special Forces.[1]The operation was led by
anti-drug prosecutor Sarita Bonzi.[3]Investigations were continuing to
identify those responsible and bring them before the courts.[1]
Agents found three parcels of growing cannabis covering 9 hectares.[3]They
found 450 kilos of chopped marijuana packed in 15 bags of 30 kilos each.[1][2]They also found 15 kilos of cannabis seeds.[1][2]They dismantled five precarious
camps used by the growers.[3][2][4]SENAD stated that the production from the dismantled site was destined for distribution across Brazil, primarily in favelas.[4]They seized a homemade industrial sieve used to
process the drug.[3]
By judicial order, all the evidence was destroyed and incinerated on site after
samples were taken for custody and laboratory analysis.[3][2]Senad is Paraguay’s
Secretaría Nacional Antidrogas, the national anti-drug agency.[1]
During the intervention, the anti-drug agents located three plots of alleged cannabis in the growth stage, totalling a surface area of nine hectares.[5]The procedure began at around 07:10 in the morning and was handled by special agents of SENAD’s Regional Department No. 1, based in Pedro Juan Caballero, accompanied by members of the institution’s Special Forces.[5]According to the official report, no people were reported detained during the intervention.[5]
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No arrests were named in the opened reports; investigations were said to be continuing.
The articles give no separate raid date beyond the 5 November 2026 publications, so the publication date stands in for the event date.
Última Hora, published on 5 November 2026, says the destruction happened "este jueves" (this Thursday), while Radio Oasis dates the search to the morning of Wednesday 4 November 2026; the report uses 4 November.
The number of cannabis plants on the nine hectares was not published in the accounts.
Agencia IP reported the operation was coordinated with prosecutor Jorge Sosa, whereas other outlets named prosecutor Sarita Bonzi.
Agencia IP reported 27 tonnes of cannabis destroyed, representing SENAD's estimated yield from the nine eradicated hectares.
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.
On 28 October 2026 Amambay anti-drug police burned two hectares of cannabis at harvest on Estancia Pica Pau in Cerro Kuatiá, Capitán Bado, plus about 2,000 kg drying nearby and a camp, under the SUMAR plan. No arrests were reported.
