Cláudio Barcellos de Barcellos, known as Caco Barcellos, (born 5 March 1950) is a Brazilian journalist, television reporter and writer, specialized in investigative stories and documentaries about human rights, denouncing social injustice and violence. He presents the program ''Profissão:Repórter'' at
TV Globo
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.
Barcellos was awarded two times with
Prêmio Jabuti on reporting, with the books ''Rota 66:a história da polícia que mata'' (1992) and ''Abusado: o dono do Morro Dona Marta'' (2004).
Biography
Barcelos was born in Porto Alegre, in the
Vila São José do Murialdo neighborhood. He worked as a taxi driver and graduated in Journalism at the
Pontifical Catholic University.
Barcellos started as a reporter for the Porto Alegre newspaper Folha da Manhã, having also written as a freelancer for the magazines Verus,
ISTOÉ and
Veja and the newspaper ''Coojornal'', of the Rio Grande Do Sul Journalist's Union. In 1979, Barcellos reported about the
Sandinista revolution
The Nicaraguan Revolution ( es, Revolución Nicaragüense or Revolución Popular Sandinista, link=no) encompassed the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, the campaign led by the Sandinista National Liberation F ...
in Nicaragua; in the book ''Nicarágua:a revolução das crianças.''
In 1982 he was hired by TV Globo, where he currently works.
Works
Books
* 1979 – ''Nicarágua:a revolução das crianças.''
* 1992 – ''Rota 66:a história da polícia que mata''
* 2004 –''Abusado: o dono do Morro Dona Marta''
Stage play
* 2007 – Osama:The Suicide Bomber of Rio (co-written with Célia Helena for the Conexões project)
References
External links
Caco Barcellos' profile in Memória Globo (in Portuguese)
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Living people
1950 births
Brazilian investigative journalists
Brazilian television journalists
Brazilian non-fiction writers
Brazilian taxi drivers
People from Porto Alegre