14 Facts About Ignacio Ramonet

Ignacio Ramonet Miguez was born on 5 May 1943 and is a Spanish academic, journalist, and writer who has been based in Paris for much of his career.

Ignacio Ramonet is one of the founders of the non-governmental organization Media Watch Global, and its president.

Ignacio Ramonet frequently contributes to El Pais, among other media, and participates in an advisory council to the Venezuelan network Telesur.

Ignacio Ramonet continued these studies at Bordeaux, Rabat and Paris.

Ignacio Ramonet has been a professor of Communication Theory at Paris Diderot University.

Ignacio Ramonet first started writing journalism as a film critic and writer about film for various magazines.

Ignacio Ramonet later wrote more frequently about media culture, communications, and national affairs, becoming associated with Le Monde Diplomatique, started in 1954 as a monthly publication associated with the newspaper.

In 2007, Ignacio Ramonet participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project.

Ignacio Ramonet says that it is a betrayal of socialism for some social democrat parties to have chosen the Third Way between socialism and capitalism.

In May 2004, Ignacio Ramonet supported Castro when Castro disputed the claim by Forbes that he was the seventh wealthiest head of state.

In 2006, after Castro had retired from public life, Ignacio Ramonet praised Castro's legacy in a series of articles in Foreign Policy.

Ignacio Ramonet said reforms under Castro "have proceeded from a popular movement in which the hopes of peasants, workers, and even professionals from the small urban bourgeoisie have converged".

Ignacio Ramonet has called for autarky and for regulation, taxes and tariffs that reduce international trade.

Ignacio Ramonet became a founder of Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action.