2 hectares burned and 790 kg of marijuana seized at Ñacunday, Paraguay
Argentine Gendarmería officers and Paraguay's Senad burned two hectares of cannabis and seized 790 kilograms of marijuana at Lomas Valentina, in Ñacunday district, Alto Paraná, on the Paraná river border. The raid followed intelligence sharing and the March arrest of two Paraguayans in El Dorado, Misiones, with 67.5 kilograms of marijuana.
Argentina’s Gendarmería Nacional and Paraguay’s Secretaría Nacional Antidrogas,
Senad, confirmed a marijuana plantation at Lomas Valentina, in Ñacunday
district, Alto Paraná, close to the Paraná river that divides the two countries.[1]Officers burned two hectares of Cannabis sativa and seized790 kilograms of
marijuana.[1]
A criminal-guarantee judge for the Iruña district ordered the destruction of the
crop and the seizure of the marijuana, which was carried out through Senad’s
special anti-drug agents.[1]The case began with an exchange of data between
Gendarmería’s Eldorado judicial investigations unit and Paraguay’s anti-drug
investigations department, after drug seizures in a border strip covering the
Misiones localities of Wanda and Montecarlo.[1]Part of the intelligence came
from the arrest of two Paraguayan citizens on 18 March 2018 in El Dorado,
Argentina, where officers found 67 kilograms530 grams of marijuana packed
inside the body of a pickup truck.[1]
Economis, a Misiones newspaper, reported that Gendarmería and Argentina’s
federal intelligence agency, the AFI, took part in the joint operation with
Senad and that the production site in the forest was meant to supply the
Argentine market.[2]Economis published the Senad statement, which described a
drug-growing and processing operation steps from the Argentine border and put
the amount eliminated at two hectares and more than 700 kilograms.[2]
Patrulla Radial, a Corrientes police-news site, carried the federal Security
Ministry’s release with the same figures and the same account of the March
arrests.[3]
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Marijuana plants at the Lomas Valentina plantation, in a photo published with the Argentine ministry's release. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional ArgentinaPhoto details
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Source: EconomisThe marijuana plantation destroyed at Lomas Valentina, in a photo published with the ministry release. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional ArgentinaPhoto details
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Source: EconomisEradication work at the Lomas Valentina plantation, in a photo published with the ministry release. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional ArgentinaPhoto details
The accounts give no separate day for the raid; 4 May 2018 is the date of the Argentine ministry release, the Senad statement and the publications, and stands in for the incident date.
The Argentine release gives the seized amount as 790 kilograms in one paragraph and as "una tonelada" (one tonne) in another; the report uses 790 kilograms, the figure in the title and the Senad statement.
Senad's own post put the amount at "more than 700 kg", so 790 kilograms is the more specific official figure rather than a measured weight reported independently.
No count of individual plants destroyed on the two hectares was published.
No arrests were reported at the plantation; the only detentions mentioned, on 18 March in El Dorado, Argentina, are an earlier linked case and are not counted in this report's figures.
The report cannot say whether anyone was ever charged or tried over the plantation.
The AFI's role is reported only by Economis, not in the Argentine ministry or Senad statements cited.
The site is described as forest land near the Paraná river; no exact coordinates were published, so the Ñacunday district is used.
The photos carry no caption in the opened pages beyond the ministry release they were published with, so it cannot be confirmed from the pages exactly what each frame shows.
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.
