Mary O'Grady
{{Short description|American journalist and editor at the Wall Street Journal}}
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Mary Anastasia O'Grady is an American editor, and columnist who works for The Wall Street Journal. She has, also, been a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board since 2005. She writes predominantly on Latin America and is a co-editor of the Index of Economic Freedom. She is a recipient of the Bastiat Prize.
Biography
=Education=
A 1975 graduate of Guilford (CT) Senior High School, O'Grady earned a bachelor's degree in English from Assumption College and later received an MBA from Pace University in financial management.{{cite web|title=Mary O'Grady|url=http://topics.wsj.com/person/O/mary-anastasia-o'grady/5471#|website=The Wall Street Journal|accessdate=11 August 2015}}
=Career=
Before her work for The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), she was an options strategist for Advest, Thomson McKinnon Securities then Merrill Lynch, where she worked for 10 years.
In August 1995, O'Grady joined WSJ and later became a senior editorial page writer for the journal in December 1999. In November 2005, she was appointed as a member of WSJ's editorial board.
She is also editor of "The Americas," a weekly column that appears every Monday and deals with politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada while also serving as a member of the board of directors at Liberty Fund.
She is well known for her positions regarding classical liberalism, her frontal rejection of leftist governments in the Americas and for being in favor of the legalization of drug traffickingArchived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211210/UNJzaaz_lLs Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20110116131722/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNJzaaz_lLs Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNJzaaz_lLs| title = Latin America Needs Free Trade & Drug Legalization: Q&A with WSJ's Mary Anastasia O'Grady | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}
She has been characterized by her strong position against progressive governments, which has elicited responses from people such as former US President Jimmy Carter, who wrote an article in response to O'Grady.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Venezuela-Voters-Carter24aug04.htm |title=Venezuela's Voters Have Spoken |access-date=2013-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021205107/http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Venezuela-Voters-Carter24aug04.htm |archive-date=2013-10-21 |url-status=dead }} She has been criticized in the Salvadoran online newspaper Diario La Pagina for her support, through her columns, of the controversial and nepotistic privatization process in El Salvador.{{cite web |url=http://www.lapagina.com.sv/nacionales/88150/El-Circulo-de-Francisco-Flores-brazo-politico-del-G20-salvadoreno |title=Diario digital de noticias de El Salvador |website=www.lapagina.com.sv |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021213346/http://www.lapagina.com.sv/nacionales/88150/El-Circulo-de-Francisco-Flores-brazo-politico-del-G20-salvadoreno |archive-date=2013-10-21}} {{By whom|date=May 2021}}
In an article published on The Wall Street Journal, she linked Iran with the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador citing "secret intelligence sources."{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/soleimanis-latin-america-terror-11578863631|title=Opinion | Soleimani's Latin America Terror|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=12 January 2020|last1=O'Grady|first1=Mary Anastasia}} The Mexican president publicly denied the contents of the article in a press conference,{{Cite web|url=https://aristeguinoticias.com/1401/mexico/desmiente-amlo-al-wall-street-journal-sobre-supuestos-nexos-con-iran/|title=Aristegui Noticias}} characterizing the article as false information.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/politica/2020/01/15/se-ofreceran-disculpas-al-pueblo-yaqui-en-2021-reitera-amlo-8955.html|title = Reitera AMLO que ofrecerá disculpas al pueblo yaqui en 2021 - Política - la Jornada|date = 15 January 2020}}
Honors and awards
=Awards=
- Inter American Press Association's David Gleaner Award (1997)
- International Policy Network's Bastiat Prize (2005)
- Association of Private Enterprise Education's Thomas Jefferson Award (2009)
- The Fund for American Studies' Walter Judd Freedom Award (2012)
=Honorary degrees=
O'Grady was awarded the following honorary degrees:
References
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External links
- [https://www.wsj.com/news/author/mary-anastasia-ogrady WSJ Biography]
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Category:Pace University alumni