Philip Reeves
Philip Reeves is an award-winning international correspondent covering South America. Previously, he served as NPR's correspondent covering Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India.
Reeves has spent two and a half decades working as a journalist overseas, reporting from a wide range of places including the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Asia.
He is a member of the NPR team that won highly prestigious Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University and George Foster Peabody awards for coverage of the conflict in Iraq. Reeves has been honored several times by the South Asian Journalists' Association.
Reeves covered South Asia for more than 10 years. He has traveled widely in Pakistan and India, taking NPR listeners on voyages along the Ganges River and the ancient Grand Trunk Road.
Reeves joined NPR in 2004 after 17 years as an international correspondent for the British daily newspaper The Independent. During the early stages of his career, he worked for BBC radio and television after training on the Bath Chronicle newspaper in western Britain.
Over the years, Reeves has covered a wide range of stories, including Boris Yeltsin's erratic presidency, the economic rise of India, the rise and fall of Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf, and conflicts in Gaza and the West Bank, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.
Reeves holds a degree in English literature from Cambridge University. His family originates from Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Argentina hosts the G20 summit this weekend but it's been a rocky time in the run-up, from economic problems to the chaotic cancelation of a soccer championship.
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President Nicolás Maduro sets his eyes on the country's golden Orinoco flow. His ally Turkey is a major buyer. -
Brazilians have chosen a new president. He's a far-right former army captain who has espoused racist, misogynistic and homophobic views. His name: Jair Bolsonaro.
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Jair Bolsonaro — a former army captain who expressed his admiration for dictatorship and repeatedly denigrated women and gays — looks certain to become the country's new president.
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Onetime targets of Brazil's dictatorship are worried that a candidate who openly admires the past military regime is expected to win Sunday's presidential election. -
Brazilians vote Sunday in the second round of a presidential election that has riven the nation. The front runner is a far-right candidate who has used misogynistic, racist and homophobic language.
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Environmental groups warn it'll be disastrous for the Amazon if Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil. Bolsonaro grew up in a rain forest, in a community that's now deeply divided about him.
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Amid rising political tensions, veteran rocker Roger Waters is using his tour to urge Brazilians not to vote for the far-right presidential candidate — prompting confrontations between fans. -
Preliminary results show a far-right candidate returned a commanding lead in the first round of the presidential election. He heads to a runoff later this month with the Workers' Party candidate.
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Each year Chinese youth teams send members to a Brazilian academy for 10 months of soccer coupled with regular school lessons, including classes in Portuguese.
