On 25 October 2026, Guatemala’s National Civil Police (PNC), through its Subdirectorate General for Anti-Narcotics Information Analysis (SGAIA), located and eradicated a cannabis crop in the mountainous area near Ixcoch and Ixmucané, in Las Cruces municipality, Petén.[1] SGAIA said the plants were at a productive stage and that officers uprooted and incinerated 8,820 of them.[1] The agency valued the plants at Q4,410,000.[1]
TN23 reported the same location, count and official valuation, and said SGAIA coordinated the eradication and burning.[2] The two reports describe the operation as part of police efforts against illegal cultivation, but neither gives a measured area for the plots or says how many separate plots were found.[1][2] SGAIA’s notice classed the work as a search, location and eradication operation against illicit crops and referred to continued nationwide operations.[1] The reports do not identify who cultivated this planting or state whether anyone was arrested.[1][2]
