John spoke to journalist and writer Vincent Bevins about his new book, The Jakarta Method (out now), a whirlwind narrative tour through the history of communism and the US’ covert operations undertaken to challenge its popularity.
The Jakarta Method links the massacre of one million Indonesian civilians in 1965 to events in Latin America and across the world, and Vincent discusses the fate of communism in Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile and Guatemala.
Vincent worked for the Financial Times in London, spent six years as Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and most recently covered Southeast Asia for the Washington Post. The Jakarta Method connects Vincent’s main fields of reporting, and was his way of exploring and explaining why the world looks as it does today.
You can buy The Jakarta Method here:
https://vincentbevins.com/book/
Publisher Hachette:
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vincent-bevins/the-jakarta-method/9781541742406/
Can Brazil’s Democracy Withstand Jair Bolsonaro? | The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/10/brazil-democracy-jair-bolsonaro/574258/
Indonesia’s Democracy Is Becoming More Conservative | The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/04/indonesia-democracy-elections-conservative/587341/
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