Canning House | Latin American Weekly Report

The long wait is over. Mexico’s new gendarmerie was finally launched this week, some 20 months after President Enrique Peña Nieto took office. The fact that Peña Nieto’s ambitious reform agenda has largely been carried out means that the focus will increasingly shift back onto the serious public security concerns he inherited and what he has managed to do to address them. It is far from clear that the gendarmerie will have a significant impact, still less enable the return to barracks of the military, whose prominent presence in the fight against organised crime was one of the fiercest criti- cisms directed by Peña Nieto at his predecessor Felipe Calderón (2006-2012).

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Ecuador: A new political cycle

Ecuador has voted for its new president - Daniel Noboa will take office in November. In Canning House's latest blog, Paola Ycaza considers how his victory represents a curious repetition of history - and why his actions as president will be critical as Ecuador begins a new political cycle.

Sonia Guajajara and the Indigenous spring in Brazil

Last week Sonia Guajajara, Brazil’s first-ever Minister for Indigenous Peoples, landed in London accompanied by two younger Indigenous activists. Her travels coincided with a ground-breaking Supreme Court victory for Indigenous peoples and allies in Brazil. In Canning House's latest blog, Laura Trajber Waisbich considers what Guajajara's, and Brazil's, new approach to Indigenous policies mean for the country.

28-08-2014: Latin American Weekly Report

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Ecuador: A new political cycle

Sonia Guajajara and the Indigenous spring in Brazil

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