Senad and Brazil's police take 800 tons out of circulation in Nueva Alianza XXVI
Operation Nueva Alianza XXVI ran from 6 to 15 July 2021 in Amambay, with Senad and Brazil's Federal Police dismantling 109 narco camps, eradicating 260 hectares of cannabis and seizing 47,730 kilograms of marijuana. The agencies estimated more than 800 tons taken out of circulation.
🇵🇾 Capitán Bado, María Auxiliadora and Pedro Juan Caballero, Amambay · Paraguay
Paraguay’s National Anti-Drug Secretariat (Senad) and Brazil’s Federal Police dismantled 109 narco camps and eradicated260 hectares of cannabis in Amambay department during the 10-day Operation Nueva Alianza XXVI, which ran from 6 to 15 July 2021.[1][2]The forces seized47,730 kilograms of processed marijuana and estimated the total taken out of circulation at more than 800 tons, counting the destroyed crop.[1][2]
Camps, seeds and a financial blow
Air and ground teams with helicopter support from both countries swept Capitán Bado, the María Auxiliadora colony, Pedro Juan Caballero and nearby border zones, detecting camps run by Brazilian and Paraguayan criminal groups.[1]Officers also destroyed 842,000 marijuana seeds, and Senad said the dismantled camps were the logistics base for processing large volumes bound for Brazilian criminal factions.[2]The agencies put the financial blow to traffickers at about 24.8 million US dollars.[1]
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Source: Agencia IPFederal Police and Senad agents destroyed nearly 48 tons of marijuana in Amambay during the operation's 26th phase. Photo: Senad via Diálogo AméricasPhoto details
Diálogo Américas headlines 48 tons of seized marijuana while Agencia IP headlines 800 tons; the report uses both, treating the larger figure as the agencies' estimate including the eradicated crop equivalent.
Neither opened source reports arrests made during this phase of the operation.
Diálogo Américas notes the Federal Police destroyed about 58,000 cannabis plants in Pernambuco, Brazil, on 12 to 15 July, a separate event left out here.
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.
