Alexei Barrionuevo is an American news journalist who has been the Southern Cone bureau chief for the American newspaper The New York Times

The New York Times

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, based in Brazil, since August 2007. Barrionuevo moved the bureau, in June of 2010, from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo. Barrionuevo previously was a national business correspondent for The Times based in Chicago

Chicago

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, from 2005 to 2007.

Career

Barrionuevo was born and raised in Illinois. He completed high school at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and graduated from the University of California with a degree in Political Science.

Prior to joining The Times he worked in Brussels as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

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 covering European anti-trust, regulation and integration of Eastern Europe into the European Union. He began at The Journal as a reporter covering global energy from the Houston bureau, where he was part of The Journals award-winning coverage of the fall of Enron. He also briefly served as a correspondent for the paper in Turkey

Turkey

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 and Iraq

Iraq

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.

Barrionuevo began his professional career as a reporter at The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with a circulation of 264,459 subscribers, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported in September 2010...

, where he covered education and general news from 1993 to 1997.