Nicaragua, Ramonet Condemns Globalization
Neoliberal globalization is not the solution to the disaster prevailing in the world, asserted French writer and editor of Le Monde Diplomatique magazine, Ignacio Ramonet, in his lecture at a Nicaraguan university Wednesday.

The expert highlighted that “globalization is substitution of the market for social, national and solidarity cohesion, which is presented as the answer to all society’s problems.”

According to Ramonet, the media constitutes the ideological arm of that process, where capital rules and governments manage. Communication is the strategic raw material at present and those who control information have the power.

The French journalist referred to the creation of a tax for flight of capital, putting a moratorium on privatization of potable water, and excluding education, culture and health from the Free Trade Agreements, as well as a 0.7 percent tax on mega fortunes as some of the seven measures he considered important to stop the neoliberal globalization.