Mexico's New Gendarmerie: Security Game Changer or Window Dressing?

Weekly InSight | 01 August 2014 This Week's Analysis Inside Peru's Illegal Logging Industry To learn about the illegal wood trade and its impact on local communities, photographer Fellipe Abreu spent 75 days in the Brazil-Peru border region, where the Javari River forms a natural frontier between the countries, visiting indigenous communities, coca plantations, and a logging site in the middle of the jungle. Mexico's New Gendarmerie: Security Game Changer or Window Dressing? With Mexico preparing to launch one of President Enrique Peña Nieto's signature security initiatives -- the gendarmerie -- a new report questions whether the force can have a genuine impact on the country's security situation. Colombia's Paramilitary-Coal Nexus: Drummond, Glencore Face New Accusations Nicaragua Police Reforms Could Politicize Security Mexico’s Internally Displaced An Invisible Problem: Report   News Captured Peru Narco Boss Worked with Mexico's Tijuana Cartel Has Mexico Neutralized the Knights Templar Boss? El Salvador Govt Plans End to Gang-Segregated Prisons EPL Guerrillas' Call for Peace Talks Poses Dilemma for Colombia Release of Ex-Intelligence Chief Highlights Venezuela Official Impunity Dismissal of Chiquita Banana Case Major Blow to Colombia Victims More News Multimedia Map showing contraband smuggling route from Bolivia to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Image from an InSight Crime slideshow of photographs taken by photographer Fellipe Abreu as he explored Peru's illegal logging trade. InSight is Sponsored by: American University Open Society Foundations International Development Research Centre