Senad and Brazil's Federal Police destroy 196 hectares of marijuana in Amambay
Operation Nova Aliança IV, a nine-day Senad and Polícia Federal campaign in Amambay, ended on 12 June 2009 with 196 hectares of cannabis plantations destroyed around Pedro Juan Caballero and Capitán Bado. Agents also seized processed marijuana, seeds and camp equipment.
🇵🇾 Pedro Juan Caballero and Capitán Bado, Amambay, Paraguay
Senad, Paraguay’s national anti-drug secretariat, and Brazil’s Polícia Federal finished the fourth
Nova Aliança operation on 12 June 2009 after nine days in the Amambay department.[1]Correio do
Estado reported that agents destroyed two million cannabis plants across 196 hectares, mainly around
Pedro Juan Caballero and Capitán Bado.[1]
What was destroyed
The same report said teams cleared 93 plots, dismantled 37 camps that supported the plantations,
seized five presses and 220 kilograms of seeds, and confiscated at least 13 tonnes of marijuana
already processed for sale.[1]While the raid was still running, an EFE dispatch published in Folha
de S.Paulo on 10 June said Senad had already destroyed 161 hectares equivalent to 483 tonnes of
standing crop, seized 11 tonnes of processed cannabis, confiscated 58 kilograms of seeds, taken two
presses and dismantled 31 camps under Nova Aliança 4 with Brazilian federal support.[2]
Border context
The EFE story quoted Amambay governor Bartolomé Ramírez describing violent disputes between Brazilian
trafficking factions near the border, even as Senad publicised the eradication figures.[2]Neither
opened source names cultivators arrested during this phase of the operation.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
An EFE report on 10 June, while the operation was still under way, put destroyed plantations at 161 hectares and processed seizures at 11 tonnes, whereas Correio do Estado on 12 June reported 196 hectares and at least 13 tonnes ready for consumption.
Correio do Estado counts two million cannabis plants destroyed; the opened sources do not reconcile that plant total with the hectare figures.
Neither opened account reports arrests or charges against financiers or cultivators from this phase of Nova Aliança IV.
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.
