Ana Ramírez Cañil is a journalist. She was born in Madrid 52 years ago but comes from Rascafría. At 19 she began as an economic journalist, a mere job becoming a passion when she crossed this with politics. After a few months at El Alcázar, she worked for Cinco Días, the magazine Mercado (cradle of a generation of economic journalists) and La Gaceta de Negocios in its early days. From 1984-5 she lived in New York. She has been chief editor of the weekly El Siglo, editor of Informe Semanal and El Periódico de Catalunya's correspondent in Madrid.