6 hectares of marijuana destroyed in Ñacunday forest reserve
SENAD agents and an anti-drug prosecutor destroyed about six hectares of growing marijuana in a forest reserve in Ñacunday, Alto Paraná, in an operation during the weekend before 10 March 2026. They dismantled a growers' camp and destroyed cultivation equipment, traps and ammunition found at the site, and reported no arrests.
🇵🇾 Colonia Mbareté, forest reserve of Agrotoro S.A., Ñacunday, Alto Paraná · Paraguay
Agents of SENAD’s Ciudad del Este regional office and anti-drug prosecutor Elvio
Aguilera Vázquez carried out an operation in a forest reserve in Ñacunday
district, destroying six hectares of marijuana plantations over the weekend.[1]The operation took place in Colonia Mbareté, inside the forest reserve
belonging to the company Agrotoro S.A. in the south of Alto Paraná department.[1]Officers destroyed two plots of marijuana in the growth stage, each
covering about three hectares, according to the prosecution’s report.[1]The
operation was handled by special agents of SENAD’s Regional Department No. 2
based in Ciudad del Este, with special-forces support and the Public Ministry
headed by prosecutor Elvio Aguilera.[2]
They also dismantled a camp used by the growers, along with personal belongings.[1]Agents found a homemade sieve, a Jacto-brand sprayer, two seeders, six
homemade cazabobo traps and three unstruck calibre-28 cartridges.[1]
En Tiempo Real described the six cazabobo traps as homemade devices designed to
cause serious injury or death to intruders or agents entering the crop area.[3]All the items found as evidence were destroyed on site on the prosecutor’s
orders.[1]
Photos and video
The destroyed marijuana crop in the Ñacunday forest reserve, in the handout photo published with the report. Photo: GentilezaPhoto details
The reports give no separate date for the operation beyond "during the weekend" before the 9-10 March 2026 publications, so 10 March 2026 stands in for the incident date.
No count of the destroyed plants was published, only the planted area, so no plant figure is recorded.
No weight of the destroyed cannabis was published, so no kilogram figure is recorded.
No arrests, suspects, charges or court outcome were reported.
The three accounts appear to reproduce the same prosecution and SENAD report rather than independent measurements of the crop.
No SENAD statement page for this March 2026 operation could be opened; the agency site search only returned a separate April 2026 eradication of 36 tonnes over 12 hectares in the same Colonia Mbareté, a different event not covered here.
The numbers of the cazabobo traps and cartridges found are from the La Nación account; the other outlets name the same items without counts.
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.
