131.9 kg of marijuana found on the Paraná bank at Puerto Esperanza
Gendarmería officers patrolling at Vera Cue, in Puerto Esperanza, Misiones, saw two people throwing bundles from a canoe toward the Argentine bank and found 149 packages of marijuana, 131 kilos 946 grams, after the pair fled to Paraguay. The federal court and prosecutor's office in Puerto Iguazú ordered the drug seized and no arrests were reported.
🇦🇷 Vera Cue, Puerto Esperanza, Misiones · Argentina
Two people threw bundles from a canoe toward the Argentine bank of the Paraná at
Vera Cue, in the Misiones town of Puerto Esperanza, and fled to Paraguay when
Gendarmería officers called on them to halt.[1]Neither person was caught, and
the two accounts name no arrests.[1]
After officers searched the area they found five bundles holding rectangular
packages wrapped in ochre tape of the kind used to carry drugs.[1]Field tests
by the Eldorado forensic unit, done in front of witnesses, were positive for
cannabis sativa.[1]The load was moved to the unit’s base, where officers
opened the bundles and counted 149 rectangular packages weighing 131 kilos946
grams in total.[1]The weight is just over 131 kilograms, the figure the
federal Security Ministry used in its headline.[2]
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Source: Argentina.gob.ar (Gendarmería Nacional Argentina)Gendarmerie photo of the bundle of ochre-taped marijuana packages seized near the river at Puerto Esperanza, Misiones. Photo: Gendarmería Nacional ArgentinaPhoto details
The sources give no separate time of day or exact date beyond 17 May 2026, the date the agency published the statement; the seizure is dated to that day here.
No street value for the load was published.
The two people seen throwing the bundles were not identified or arrested, and no further investigation or court step was reported.
Separate 2026 Gendarmería statements describe other bundles thrown from canoes onto the same stretch of the Paraná, including 135 kilos 547 grams at La Arenera on 12 April; those are different events and are not included here.
Coordinates are for the town centre of Puerto Esperanza, not the Vera Cue riverside sector.
The two agency photos of the bundles carry no individual captions or credits beyond the Gendarmería statement.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Primera Edición: The patrol was carried out by members of the Núcleo section of Gendarmería Nacional's Escuadrón 10 Eldorado.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Argentina.gob.ar (Gendarmería Nacional Argentina): The case went to the Federal Court and the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Puerto Iguazú, which ordered the drug seized and proceedings opened for breach of Argentina's drug law 23.737.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Primera Edición: Puerto Esperanza lies on the Paraná across from Paraguay, and the Misiones outlet reported that the load was apparently thrown from the canoe onto Argentine territory.
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