Coutinho, Leonardo

Biography

Leonardo Coutinho has been a journalist for twenty years, seventeen of them in Veja magazine, one of the most influential outlets of the Brazilian printed media. Since 2011 he has published several reports on the presence of Islamic extremists in Brazil as well as a series of “scoops” with international reverberation related to Bolivarian governments, such as the recidivism of Chavez’s cancer, the arrest of Nicolás Maduro’s nephews due to cocaine trafficking and the conspiracy between Venezuela, Iran and Argentina to smuggle nuclear secrets.