Three gunmen killed in CODI-FTC raid on a 887-kg cannabis camp in Canindeyú
On 28 June 2025 a tactical CODI-FTC operation on intelligence from SENAD and military intelligence was met with gunfire at a cannabis collection camp at Yvy Porã, Saltos del Guairá, leaving three suspected traffickers of the "El Macho" group dead and 887 kilograms of marijuana seized.
🇵🇾 Yvy Porã, Colonia Gasory, Saltos del Guairá, Canindeyú · Paraguay
Military commandos of Paraguay’s Internal Defence Operations Command (CODI), with the Joint Task
Force (FTC) and on intelligence from the anti-drug agency SENAD and the army’s intelligence
battalion, on the morning of Saturday 28 June 2025 stormed a three-camp cannabis complex at Yvy
Porã, in Colonia Gasory, Saltos del Guairá, and after a firefight left three armed men dead.[1][2]
The men at the collection point by the Paraná River, some 16 km by water from Saltos del Guairá
port, opened fire with military-grade weapons; the troops repelled the attack and killed them, and
the dead were identified on 29 June as Guido Nicolás Coronel Vera, 25, Junior Antonio Montanía
Lezcano, 24, and Leonardo Brítez Guanez, 30, said to be footsoldiers of Felipe Santiago Acosta
Riveros, alias “Macho”, Paraguay’s most-wanted criminal, who may himself have escaped by water.[1][2]
At the camp the fiscal-police team seized887.2 kilograms of pressed marijuana and 4.4 kilograms of
hashish made ready for shipment to Brazil, and an arsenal: thirteen high-calibre assault rifles
(5.56 and 7.62), two 12-gauge shotguns, 734 rounds including a .50-calibre, 21 long-arm magazines,
five camouflage uniforms, communications equipment, a night-vision sight, “caza bobo” booby traps and
three boats, two with outboard motors.[2][3][4][5]
Prosecutor Abelino Bareiro of the Saltos del Guairá specialised anti-narcotics unit directed the
diligences; the three bodies were autopsied on 29 June in Asunción as advance jurisdictional
evidence under the Minnesota Protocol on deaths caused by state agents.[1][3]
Photos and video
SENAD and military officers at the campsite with the rifles, shotguns and ammunition seized after the firefight.Photo details
Whether Felipe Santiago Acosta Riveros, the most-wanted criminal said to run the camp, was present and escaped by water was left open in the reports.
The circumstances of the three deaths are contested only through official accounts; the autopsies were ordered as jurisdictional advance evidence under the Minnesota Protocol, and their result was not found in these sources.
A Cáritas report says three other suspects were apprehended during the operation, per the CODI commander; no other account mentions arrests and their fate was not reported.
The photographs of the deceased published by ABC Color are on a bot-blocked page, so their direct address could not be recorded as media here.
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