Vincent Bevins is an American journalist and author, born on June 11, 1984. He has built a notable career covering international politics and culture, with a focus on Latin America and Southeast Asia. From 2011 to 2016, Bevins served as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times based in Brazil, where he reported on significant events including the wave of protests leading up to the 2014 World Cup.
After relocating to Jakarta in 2017, he began covering Southeast Asia for The Washington Post, paying special attention to the legacy of the 1965 Indonesian massacre. His investigative work has been recognized for its impact, including exposing modern-day slavery in the Amazon rainforest.
Bevins is the author of The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (2020), which examines U.S. involvement in Cold War-era violence in Indonesia and Latin America. His latest book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (2023), explores contemporary global protests. He holds a master’s degree in international political economy from the London School of Economics and is fluent in several languages, including Portuguese and Spanish.
