70 tonnes destroyed and 162 ha eradicated in Nueva Alianza XIII
Paraguayan and Brazilian authorities said Operation Nueva Alianza XIII destroyed about 70 tonnes of marijuana and eradicated 162 hectares in Amambay department. Officials from both countries evaluated the joint push in Pedro Juan Caballero on 23 July 2016.
Paraguayan and Brazilian authorities met in the border city of Pedro Juan Caballero to evaluate a joint operation that destroyed about 70 tonnes of marijuana.[1]The force reported seizing and burning 57,810 kilograms of chopped marijuana and 9,100 kilograms of marijuana, alongside 162 hectares of crops eradicated and about 100 clandestine camps destroyed in forested parts of Amambay department on the Brazilian border.[1][2]
The meeting brought together Brazil’s justice minister Alexandre de Moraes and Federal Police director Leandro Daiello with Senad chief Hugo Vera and foreign ministry official Víctor Aquino.[1]Operation Nueva Alianza XIII worked from Pedro Juan Caballero, the capital of Amambay, with Senad reporting 162 hectares eradicated, 350 kilograms of seeds destroyed and 103 processing camps burned.[2]Both sides stressed bilateral cooperation against large-scale cultivation and trafficking between the two countries.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
ABC headlines about 70 tonnes while its body gives 57,810 kilograms of chopped marijuana plus 9,100 kilograms, totalling 66,910 kilograms; InSight Crime reports nearly 67 tonnes, and the report uses the summed 66,910 kilograms.
InSight Crime converts the 162 hectares to about 486 tonnes of potential output and adds 350 kilograms of seeds and 103 camps destroyed; those estimates are not recorded as seized weight.
Since August 2013 seven Nueva Alianza operations eradicated 2,269 hectares, a wider campaign total left out of this single-operation report.
No arrests were listed in the opened sources for this phase.
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.
