Paraguay and Brazil destroy 66 hectares and 92 tonnes of cannabis in Amambay
In the first six days of Operation Nueva Alianza 58 in Paraguay's Amambay department, the SENAD anti-drug secretariat and Brazil's Federal Police dismantled 103 production and storage camps, eradicated 66 hectares of cannabis and destroyed 92,217 kg of processed marijuana, losses the agencies put above USD 45.5 million.
🇵🇾 Amambay (Cerro Cora'i and the Capitán Bado district) · Paraguay
- Hectares
- 66
- Cannabis
- 92,217 kg
- Value (official estimate)
- USD 45,500,000
Paraguay’s National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) and Brazil’s Federal Police dismantled 103 camps
used to produce and store cannabis and eradicated 66 hectares of crops in the department of Amambay
during the first six days of Operation Nueva Alianza 58.[1][2] Officers also located and destroyed
92,217 kg of processed marijuana, packed in bags and ready for distribution.[1][2]
The air and ground incursions were concentrated around Cerro Cora’i in the Pedro Juan Caballero
district and the hamlets of Cerro Kuatiá, Umbú, Piray and Yaguarundí in the Capitán Bado district.[1][2] The operation involved SENAD special agents, troops of the internal defence command (CODI)
and helicopters of the Paraguayan air force and the Brazilian Federal Police, with the public
prosecutor’s office also taking part.[1][2]
The agencies estimated the processed drug destroyed and the potential harvest of the eradicated
fields at more than 290 tonnes of cannabis, and the loss to the criminal organisations at over USD
45.5 million.[1][2] Neither account reported an arrest.[1][2]
Nueva Alianza is a standing Paraguay–Brazil operation aimed at the production, storage and
distribution centres of cannabis grown on Paraguayan soil, with Brazil one of the main markets for
it; the SENAD said the incursions would continue in Amambay’s rural sectors in the following
days.[1][2]
Sources
- Operativo antidrogas destruye más de 92 toneladas de marihuana en Amambay. 1000 Noticias (Paraguay), 19 October 2026. In Spanish.
- SENAD y Policía Federal del Brasil destruyen más de 290 toneladas de marihuana y causan pérdidas de USD 45,5 millones al narcotráfico en Amambay. Radio Oasis 94.3 FM (Pedro Juan Caballero), 19 October 2026. In Spanish. Archived copy.
Open questions the AI reported
- The operations covered several rural locations in Amambay. The map uses a department reference point, not a single plantation or the border town of Capitán Bado.
- No arrests were reported in these accounts of the operation.
- The accounts give no start date for the operation, only the results of its first six days, and say it continued afterwards.
- The figure of more than 290 tonnes is the agencies' estimate of the processed drug plus the potential harvest of the fields eradicated.
- No count of the plants in the 66 hectares was published.
- Both accounts below reproduce the SENAD release; the agency's own page could not be opened.