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About André Petry
André Petry is a Brazilian journalist. He works for VEJA, Brazil’s leading weekly newsmagazine, since 1990. He is currently its international correspondent based in New York City. Prior to that, from 1996 to 2007, he was Bureau Chief in Brasília-DF, responsible for the magazine’s coverage on government, Congress, and Supreme Court.
While in this position, he reported or directed the staff who covered many Brazil’s top stories, from presidential campaigns to the protection of the rain forest in Amazon. For four years, he wrote a weekly column on political and social issues.
From 1991 to 1996, he was political editor in São Paulo, where he oversaw the investigative work that led to the impeachment of Brazilian president. That coverage won VEJA the most prestigious journalistic prizes in Brazil. Before that, he worked at Diário Popular in Pelotas-RS, and later at Correio Braziliense, in Brasília-DF, covering foreign issues, from Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika to the war between Iraq and Iran.
Petry received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Universidade Católica de Pelotas, in 1984. He briefly studied philosophy before entering journalism. He is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, English, and is currently working hard in his French and Italian.
He is married, has five children and lives in Manhattan.