Name Ignacio Ramonet | Role Journalist | |
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Organizations founded Books My Life, Wars of the 21st century, Geopolitics of chaos, Golosina Visual, Geopolitique du chaos Similar People Ramon Chao, Bernard Cassen, Fidel Castro, Alain Gresh, Noam Chomsky | ||
La explosi n del periodismo ignacio ramonet en entrevista con ra l zibechi
Ignacio Ramonet Miguez (born 5 May 1943 in Redondela, Pontevedra) is a Spanish journalist and writer.
Contents
- La explosi n del periodismo ignacio ramonet en entrevista con ra l zibechi
- Presentacin del libro La explosin del periodismo de Ignacio Ramonet 2
- Life
- Socialism
- Fidel Castro
- Against globalization and neoliberalism
- Attac
- Works
- Articles
- References
He was the editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique from 1991 until March 2008.
An editorial published by Ramonet on December 1997 in this magazine resulted in the launching of ATTAC. In addition, Ramonet is one of the founders of the NGO Media Watch Global, and currently he is president of this organization. Ramonet also frequently contributes to El País and participates in an advisory council to TeleSUR.
Presentación del libro La explosión del periodismo, de Ignacio Ramonet - 2
Life
Ramonet grew up in Tangier. He studied engineering at Bordeaux, Rabat and Paris, and he has been professor at Paris Diderot University.
Ignacio Ramonet participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2007.
Socialism
Ramonet calls it a betrayal of socialism that some social democrat parties have chosen the third way between socialism and capitalism.
Fidel Castro
The NGO Reporters without Borders had written about Ramonet's strong relationship with Fidel Castro. Ramonet denied this claim in 2002. In May 2004, Ramonet supported Castro in a direct television interview when Castro protested about the Forbes Magazine's list of country leaders wealth. Castro was number 7 on the list. In September 2006, Ramonet published the book Fidel Castro : Biografía a Dos Voces.
In 2006, Ramonet praised Castro in a series of articles, and became his only authorised biographer.
Against globalization and neoliberalism
Ramonet has called for autarky and for regulation, taxes and tariffs that reduce international trade.
Attac
According to Ramonet, globalization and ultra-liberalism threaten the sovereignty of national states. In his December 1997 editorial "Disarming the markets" Ramonet accused globalization for the Asian economic crisis and for threatening the identity of national states. To counter this, he called for an NGO for promoting Tobin tax (i.e., Attac).