President Santiago Peña stated in his latest management report to Congress that "Paraguay is no longer the region's cocaine corridor" and that, since the start of his administration on August 15, 2023, "not a single seizure of cocaine leaving the country has been recorded in European ports."
However, on July 26, 2024, the Spanish Civil Guard seized over four tons of cocaine concealed among sacks of rice in the port of Barcelona, with its origin traced to Paraguay.
A few days prior to the seizure in Spain, following a record confiscation of four tons of cocaine at the Caacupemí Port, Peña had declared that the drugs "no longer leave Paraguay" and are seized within national territory, cutting the chain of international trafficking.
The criminal organization operated in Spain, Paraguay, and the United Kingdom, with infrastructure in Asunción to process the drugs, package them in plastic bags, and insert them into rice sacks that were manually sewn shut before shipment to Europe.