Aquidabán I: police destroy 15 hectares of cannabis at Yby Yaú
On 8 September 2026 Paraguayan anti-drug police destroyed about 15 hectares of marijuana on eight plots at Estancia Sanguina in Yby Yaú, Concepción, burned 300 kg of chopped cannabis, tore down seven camps and seized a six-metre aluminium boat. Prosecutor Pablo René Zárate oversaw the operation; police estimated traffickers' losses at G. 6.795 billion.
After a tip to the National Police’s specialised anti-drug department, regional anti-narcotics
agents from Concepción ran Operation Aquidabán I on 8 September 2026 at Estancia Sanguina
in Yby Yaú, Concepción department.[1][2]Concepción police and the tactical police unit
supported the work, directed by prosecutor Pablo René Zárate.[1][2]
Officers cut and burned eight plots: five in harvest stage totalling about 10 hectares and
three still growing totalling about five hectares, for roughly 15 hectares in all.[1][2]They also destroyed about 300 kilograms of chopped marijuana spread on a black tarp, seven
precarious camps and assorted camp gear.[1][2]Police seized a six-metre aluminium boat
without an engine but with homemade oars, which they suspect was used to move drugs and
people on the Aquidabán river.[1][2]
ABC Color said police put the economic loss to traffickers at G. 6.795 billion.[1]Concepción al Día said the action was part of the SUMAR anti-drug plan.[2]
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Anti-drug officers during the Aquidabán I eradication at Yby Yaú, published with ABC Color's report.Photo details
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.
