Miami Herald columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andrés Oppenheimer won the VII ALGABA prize in biography, autobiography, memoirs, and historical research for a collection of columns that ran in the newspaper and elsewhere and will be published in the book The Non-United States of the Americas. The award came with a prize of $34,404.

``We all know that in our profession you're just as good as your last story but it's an honor to be recognized by your colleagues for previous work,'' Oppenheimer said. ``It's great that, once again, a major Spanish publishing house (Algaba) has recognized The Miami Herald's work on Latin America.''

The collection of columns ran in The Miami Herald and other newspapers for the past three years. The pieces examined the inability of Latin American countries to integrate. ``I don't remember when there were so many summits proclaiming Latin America integration and there were so many fights among Latin American presidents,'' Oppenheimer said.

Oppenheimer will receive the prize Oct. 21 at a ceremony in Madrid.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oppenheimer started his studies at the University of Buenos Aires, and moved to the United States in 1976 with a fellowship from the World Press Institute. In 1978, he obtained a master's in journalism from Columbia University. In 2004, he received an honorary doctorate in education from the Galileo University in Guatemala.

Oppenheimer, a syndicated columnist for The Miami Herald, was a member of the newspaper's team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for its coverage of the Iran-Contra scandal. He has also received a 1999 Maria Moors Cabot Award, the 2001 King of Spain prize, and the 2005 Emmy Suncoast award. He is the author of Castro's Final Hour; Bordering on Chaos, on Mexico's crisis; Cronicas de heroes y bandidos, Ojos vendados, Cuentos Chinos and its English version, Saving the Americas.

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