Laura Bonilla is a New York correspondent for Agence France-Presse (AFP), where she has been working for more than 20 years. Before becoming a New York correspondent, she was the news editor/deputy bureau chief of AFP in Brazil, where she reported and coordinated the multimedia coverage of the World Cup, Olympic Games, the massive protests against corruption and the sports events, the brutal decline of the economy and its impact on Brazilians, the birth of the Lava Jato investigation and Petrobras scandal, as well as the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. She has also worked for AFP in its Latin-American headquarters in Montevideo, she covered Latin American affairs in Washington, DC and worked the international economics and oil beats in Paris, where she was later a deputy to the global editor-in-chief. She has a BA in journalism from the Catholic University in Uruguay.