Ignacio Ramonet

Ignacio Ramonet Miguez
Ignacio Ramonet, Salon du livre, Geneva (2011).
Born	(1943-05-05) 5 May 1943 (age 74) Redondela, Pontevedra Province
Alma mater	Bordeaux Montaigne University

Ignacio Ramonet Miguez (born 5 May 1943 in Redondela, Pontevedra Province) is a Spanish journalist and writer.

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.

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 project in 2007.

Ramonet calls it a betrayal of socialism that some social democrat parties have chosen the third way between socialism and capitalism.

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.