Senad and Brazil's Federal Police destroy 218 hectares in Nueva Alianza XXVII
Operation Nueva Alianza XXVII ended on 3 September 2021 after ten days in Amambay, with Senad and Brazil's Polícia Federal dismantling 49 drug camps, destroying 218 hectares of cannabis and seizing 19,280 kilograms of packaged marijuana. Senad estimated US$20 million in losses to traffickers.
🇵🇾 Capitán Bado and Pedro Juan Caballero, Amambay, Paraguay
After ten days of joint raids in Amambay, Senad and Brazil’s Polícia Federal finished Operation
Nueva Alianza XXVII on 3 September 2021.[1]Agencia IP reported that agents dismantled 49 narcotics
camps on 218 hectares of illegal cannabis and seized19,280 kilograms of marijuana already packed
for transport.[1]
Where they worked
With anti-drug prosecutor Celso Morales, early incursions focused on Cadete Boquerón, Cerro Kuatia
and Rosalina in the Capitán Bado area.[1]Later raids moved to María Auxiliadora and Chirigüelo
near Pedro Juan Caballero, all zones Senad described as holding large illicit plantations.[1][2]
Traffickers’ losses
Senad said the destroyed crops could have yielded about 654 tonnes of finished marijuana and that
the operation inflicted roughly US$20 million in lost revenue on trafficking groups in Paraguay,
with La Nación adding that Brazilian street values would be at least three times higher.[1][2]La Nación summarised the outcome as more than 670 tonnes of marijuana “anuladas” alongside the
49 camps, 19,280 kilograms of ready product and 218 eradicatedhectares.[2]Senad framed the
campaign as targeting organised crime finances rather than small farmers.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
La Nación's headline reports more than 670 tonnes "anuladas" while Agencia IP says the 218 hectares represent a potential final yield of about 654 tonnes; the opened sources do not spell out how the headline total was calculated.
Diálogo Américas described the operation as twelve days and mentioned a separate 2,894 kilogram seizure in Canindeyú on 6 September; those details are outside the Amambay totals cited here.
Neither opened source names cultivators arrested during the Amambay phase of Nueva Alianza XXVII.
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.
