Senad and Brazil's police destroy 635 hectares in Nueva Alianza XXV
Operation Nueva Alianza XXV ended on 31 March 2021 after fifteen days in Amambay, with Senad and Brazil's Federal Police eradicating 635 hectares of cannabis and destroying 23,490 kilograms of prepared marijuana and 104 narco camps. The agencies put the total taken out of circulation at 1,928 tonnes, with about US$57 million in losses to traffickers.
🇵🇾 Cerro Kuatiá, Alpasa and Bella Vista Norte, Amambay · Paraguay
Paraguay’s National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad) and Brazil’s Federal Police finished Operation Nueva Alianza XXV on 31 March 2021 after fifteen days of joint raids in Amambay department.[1][2]Paraguayan Air Force and Federal Police helicopters carried agents into narco sectors at Cerro Kuatiá, Alpasa and Bella Vista Norte, supported on the ground by special agents, special forces and the Joint Task Force.[1][2]
Agents eradicated635 hectares of marijuana crops and destroyed 23,490 kilograms of marijuana already prepared, bagged and ready for transport to consumption centres.[1][2]They also detected and incinerated 104 narco camps used as production and collection bases.[1][2]
Nearly 2,000 tonnes out of circulation
Senad put the combined result at 1,928 tonnes of cannabis taken out of circulation, counting both the eradicated crops and the destroyed ready product.[1][2]Hoy reported the damage to organised crime at around US$57 million.[1]
Together with the preceding Operation Nueva Alianza XXIV, the two phases eradicated more than 1,000 hectares of marijuana in a single month.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Diálogo describes the operation as two weeks long and Hoy as fifteen days; both agree it ended on 31 March, which this report uses.
Neither opened source reports arrests made during this phase of the operation.
Hoy frames the phase alongside detentions of Brazilians linked to the PCC and the capture of Teófilo Samudio in Brazil, separate cases left out here.
Diálogo published SENAD handout photos of the operation, but the original image addresses could not be recovered (the publisher's site blocks direct access), so no direct photo URL is recorded.
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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.
