Vincent Bevins

Vincent Bevins (born June 11, 1984) is an American journalist and writer. From 2011 to 2016, he worked as a foreign correspondent based in Brazil for the Los Angeles Times, after working previously in London for the Financial Times. In 2017, he moved to Jakarta and began covering Southeast Asia for The Washington Post. In 2018, Bevins began writing The Jakarta Method, a book about U.S. Cold War violence in Indonesia and Latin America, published in 2020. His work has mostly focused on international politics, the world economy, and global culture. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World received mass support as a unique and devastating exposé of U.S. international activity.