Ignacio Ramonet

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Ignacio Ramonet (born May 5, 1943, Redondela, Spain) is a journalist and writer.

He was the editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique from 1991 until March 2008^[1].

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.

Ramonet grew up in Tangier. He studied engineering at Bordeaux, Rabat and Paris, and is now on the faculty of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

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

[edit] Works

1981 : Le Chewing-gum des yeux (French: Chewing Gum for the Eyes)
1989 : La Communication victime des marchands
1995 : Cómo nos venden la moto, with Noam Chomsky
1996 : Nouveaux pouvoirs, nouveaux maîtres du monde (French: New Powers, New World Masters)
1997 : Géopolitique du chaos (French: Geopolitics of Chaos)
1998 : Internet, el mundo que llega (Spanish: Internet, the Coming World)
1998 : Rebeldes, dioses y excluidos (Spanish: Rebels, Gods, and the Excluded), with Mariano Aguirre
1999 : La Tyrannie de la communication (French: The Tyranny of Communication)
1999 : Geopolítica y comunicación de final de milenio (Spanish: Geopolitics and Communication at the End of the Millennium)
2000 : La golosina visual
2000 : Propagandes silencieuses
2001 : Marcos, la dignité rebelle
2002 : La Post-Télévision
2002 : Guerres du XXIe siècle (Wars of the 21st Century)
2004 : Abécédaire partiel et partial de la mondialisation, with Ramón Chao and Wozniak
2006: Fidel Castro: biografía a dos voces (Spanish: Fidel Castro: Biography with Two Voices) also titled Cien horas con Fidel (One Hundred Hours with Fidel)