Senad eradicates 85 hectares of marijuana in Morombí reserve
Paraguay’s Senad, with Brazilian Federal Police support, eradicated 85 hectares of marijuana in Morombí Natural Reserve over three days ending in early March 2020, reporting about 255 tonnes of cannabis destroyed and eight processing camps cleared.
🇵🇾 Morombí Natural Reserve, Caaguazú and Canindeyú · Paraguay
Senad, Paraguay’s anti-drug secretariat, spent three days with support from Brazil’s Federal Police
destroying marijuana crops inside Morombí Natural Reserve, which spans Caaguazú and Canindeyú.[1]ABC Color reported that helicopter overflights located 85 hectares of cannabis that agents then
eradicated on the ground.[1]
Camps and tonnage
Senad said the work removed about 255 tonnes of marijuana from circulation and destroyed eight
camps that stored 150 kilograms of chopped cannabis.[1]La Nación described the same acreage and
tonnage after three days concentrated in the reserve, with Senad special forces flown in by a
Paraguayan air force helicopter.[2]
ABC Color quoted Senad as saying the operation had already cost trafficking groups about US$7.5
million.[1]La Nación’s account of the same deployment put the financial loss to traffickers at
about US$75 million, without explaining the difference in the opened text.[2]Neither report names
anyone arrested during this phase.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
La Nación said the operation inflicted about $75 million in losses on traffickers while ABC Color put the financial hit at about $7.5 million; both figures come from Senad statements in the opened reports.
Helicopter overflights detected the 85 hectares, but the articles do not report any arrests during this three-day phase.
Senad said eight camps held 150 kilograms of chopped cannabis in addition to the field eradication; no charges or suspects are named for those sites.
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.
