Operation Jerovia destroys 8,900 kg of marijuana and 400 hectares
A joint Paraguayan military and police task force destroyed 8,900 kilos of marijuana and 400 hectares of plantations in the north. Interior Minister Rafael Filizzola announced the results on 10 February 2009.
🇵🇾 San Pedro, Concepción and Canindeyú departments · Paraguay
Joint Paraguayan military and police forces deployed about four weeks earlier in central and northeastern Paraguay in pursuit of an armed group destroyed 8,900 kilos of marijuana and 400 hectares of the drug, Interior Minister Rafael Filizzola announced.[1]
President Fernando Lugo and Filizzola presented the results at a press conference on 9 February, warning drug mafias and contraband gangs that the northern provinces of San Pedro, Concepción and Canindeyú would no longer be left as ungoverned zones.[2]The task force, launched as Operation Jerovia to establish a permanent institutional presence in the north, took on the traffickers operating among the rural population there.[2]
The daily ABC Color’s account put the destroyed crop’s value at $12 million and reported a large quantity of contraband weapons and cars confiscated alongside the marijuana.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The joint force operated for about four weeks before the 10 February announcement, and the announcement does not date the individual destruction actions.
The exact departments and sites where the marijuana and hectares were destroyed were not named in the announcement.
No arrests or detained suspects were reported.
Only the minister's announced totals could be checked against a second account that quotes ABC Color; that paper's own page could not be opened.
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