Ignacio Ramonet

Ignacio Ramonet ( born May 5, 1943 in Redondela, Spain ) is a Spanish journalist and media scholar. He is Honorary President of Attac and co-organizer of the World Social Forum.

Life

Ignacio Ramonet spent his youth in Tangier. He studied engineering and sociology in Bordeaux, Rabat and Paris. He received his doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in specialist semiotics. Since 1972 he works in France.

Ramonet teaches the subject "Theory of Audiovisual Communication" at the University Denis Diderot in Paris. From 1991 to March 2008 he was Director of appearing in Paris monthly newspaper for international affairs Le Monde diplomatique. Since then, he directs the Spanish edition of this newspaper.

The published in Le Monde diplomatique in December 1997 editorial " Désarmer les marchés " - " the markets disarm " - called the anti-globalization movement Attac into life. The occasion was the erupting this year, the financial crisis in Southeast Asia. Ramonet conducted this in his article back to the previously detached forex wave of speculation. He attacked the dominance of the financial markets and the unrestricted flow of capital and described this as a threat to democracy and stability in the States. Ramonet called for the establishment of a " global organization that should be used for the imposition of a Tobin tax for the benefit of the people." From the French name of this organization, " Association pour une taxation of transactions financières pour l'aide aux citoyens ", the abbreviation Attac arose.

In Germany published articles by him, inter alia, in the leftist daily newspaper Junge Welt. Since November 2008, his editorials from the Spanish edition of Le Monde diplomatique published in German in the news magazine background and the Latin America News Portal amerika21.de. The German edition of Le Monde diplomatique regularly publishes translations of his articles.

Prices

  • Prix ​​LiberPress as "the best journalist of the year", Girona 1999
  • Prix ​​Colombe d'Or as " best foreign, peace defending journalist ", Rome, 2000
  • Rodolfo Walsh Prize for Journalism at the University of La Plata ( Argentina ), 2003
  • "Prix de la Communication culturelle Nord -Sud " (price for North-South international understanding ), Rabat, 2003
  • José Couso - prize for press freedom, Ferrol (Spain ), 2006
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