A Latin victory for American security interests

Mary Anastasia O’Grady writes “The Americas,” a weekly column on politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada that appears each Monday in the Journal. Ms. O’Grady joined the newspaper in August 1995 and became senior editor in December 1999. She was named to the editorial board in November 2005. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Liberty Fund, based in Indianapolis. .

In 2012, Ms. O’Grady won the Walter Judd Freedom Award from the Fund for American Studies. In 2009, Ms. O’Grady received the Thomas Jefferson Award from the Association of Private Enterprise Education. In 2005, Ms. O’Grady won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism from the International Policy Network for her reporting on the World Bank, Brazil’s underground economy, and the bad economic advice the United States often gives to foreign countries. ‘Latin America. In 1997, Ms. O’Grady won the Inter-American Press Association’s Daily Gleaner Award for editorial commentary.

Ms. O’Grady holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Assumption College and an MBA in financial management from Pace University.