FELCN burns more than 90 tonnes of cannabis at La Angostura
Bolivia's anti-drug force FELCN found dried marijuana and standing cannabis plants at La Angostura, in El Torno, Santa Cruz, and burned more than 90 tonnes. The published accounts name no arrests and give no separate date for the operation.
FELCN, Bolivia’s special force against drug trafficking, burned more than 90
tonnes of marijuana at La Angostura, in the municipality of El Torno, Andrés
Ibáñez province, Santa Cruz.[1][2]
Officers on patrol and in a ground search found dried marijuana and standing
cannabis plants.[1][2]They eradicated the plants and incinerated the drug.[1][2]The police account, carried by Red Uno, called the operation a
significant blow to illicit activity linked to drug trafficking in that part
of Santa Cruz, and said this kind of work is how the force finds and removes
controlled crops.[1]
The reports name no one arrested.[1][2]They give no count of plants and no
area.[1][2]El Fulgor’s headline rounds the figure to 90 tonnes; the text of
both reports says more than 90 tonnes, of marijuana both dried and still in
the ground.[1][2]
Photos and video
Smoke rising from a cleared field during the FELCN burn in El Torno (Red Uno / Bolivian police).Photo details
Prosecutors and FELCN burned 36 irrigated greenhouses of cannabis near Laguna Lagunillas, in Machacamarca, Potosí, on the night of 11 March. The Oruro prosecutor put the plants at about 12,600 kilograms.
On 3 March 2026 Bolivia's FELCN eradicated about 25 tonnes of raw marijuana on 3.75 hectares at Mojón K'asa near Toro Toro, burned an artisan processing lab with washing machines and tanks, and found no one to arrest after traffickers fled.
Bolivian anti-drug forces destroyed 20 marijuana nurseries in Lagunillas, in Rafael Bustillos province, northern Potosí, in an operation before dawn on 19 January 2026. The deputy ministry for controlled substances valued the crop destroyed at 10.7 million dollars and reported that local residents set off dynamite during the burning.
Bolivia's FELCN found and incinerated 63 marijuana nurseries holding an estimated 14.5 tonnes in the Lagunillas highlands near Llallagua, Potosí, in what the government minister called a historic first planned entry into the area.
