Bevins worked in
Berlin before covering
Hugo Chávez in
Venezuela with
The Daily Journal. He earned a master's degree in
international political economy from the
London School of Economics. From 2012 to 2016, Bevins ran the "From Brazil" section of Brazilian newspaper
Folha de S.Paulo, which published news and analysis from Bevins and other correspondents in Brazil. He and this group of journalists were at the center of reporting on the
2013 protests in Brazil. In 2012, Bevins published an investigation on
modern-day slavery in the
Amazon rainforest.
Pig iron companies in the state of
Maranhão later that year agreed not to source
charcoal produced using
slave labor,
deforestation, or invasions into
indigenous lands. In 2016, Brazilian president
Dilma Rousseff declared in an interview with Bevins that she did not believe that the
United States Central Intelligence Agency was behind her
impeachment. Bevins sometimes writes for and appears in Brazilian media. He speaks fluent Portuguese and has also worked in Spanish and German. In his 2020 book
The Jakarta Method, Bevins uses declassified documents, archival research, and eyewitness reports to argue that the victory of the United States in the
Cold War within the
Third World was in part made possible by U.S.-facilitated extermination of local leftist and nationalist groups. The book title refers to the
Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 by the
Suharto regime. == Awards ==