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Vincent Bevins
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American journalist and author who covers international politics, the world economy, and global culture; author of The Jakarta Method (2020).
Biography
Vincent Bevins (born June 11, 1984) is an American journalist and author. He worked in London for the Financial Times before serving as a foreign correspondent based in Brazil for the Los Angeles Times from 2011 to 2016. In 2017 he moved to Jakarta and began covering Southeast Asia for The Washington Post, with reporting that has focused on international politics, the world economy, and global culture.
In 2020 Bevins published The Jakarta Method, a book about United States Cold War violence in Indonesia and Latin America. The book draws on declassified documents, archival research, and eyewitness testimony collected across twelve countries and has been received as an exposé of U.S. complicity in anti-communist mass killings during the Cold War.
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Books by Vincent Bevins
The Jakarta Method
The Jakarta Method (2020) examines United States Cold War violence in Indonesia and Latin America. Drawing on declassified documents, archival research, and eyewitness testimony from twelve countries, it argues the extermination of unarmed leftists was central to Washington’s Cold War triumph.