<p>Jos<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&eacute;</span> Ignacio Rasco naci<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&oacute;</span> en La Habana, Cuba. Estudi<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&oacute;</span> en el Colegio Bel<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&eacute;</span>n, y Derecho y Filosof<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&iacute;</span>a y Letras en la Universidad de La Habana. Fundador en 1959 y primer presidente del Partido Dem<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&oacute;</span>crata Cristiano (PDC) en Cuba, actualmente es Presidente de Honor de dicho partido. Asiduo colaborador de <em>Diario Las Am<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&eacute;</span>ricas</em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;varios de sus art<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&iacute;</span>culos han sido recopilados bajo el t<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&iacute;</span>tulo<em> &laquo;Huellas de mi cuban<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&iacute;</span>a&raquo;</em>. Es autor asimismo de numerosos ensayos, entre los que sobresalen <em>&laquo;Hispanidad y cubanidad&raquo;</em> y <em>&laquo;Jacques Maritain y la Democracia Cristiana&raquo;</em>.<span style="color: #1f497d;"> </span>Su ensayo <em>&laquo;Integraci<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&oacute;</span>n cultural de Am<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&eacute;</span>rica Latina&raquo;</em> fue premiado por el <a name="_GoBack"></a>Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, donde labor<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&oacute;</span> durante nueva a<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&ntilde;</span>os. Ha sido merecedor de diversos premios period<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&iacute;</span>sticos, como el Sergio Carb<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&oacute;</span> y el Jos<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&eacute;</span> Ignacio &laquo;Pep<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&iacute;</span>n&raquo; Rivero. Fue galardonado con la orden &laquo;Isabel La Cat<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&oacute;</span>lica&raquo; por su defensa del idioma espa<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&ntilde;</span>ol. Fund<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&oacute;</span>&nbsp;en 1982 y presidi<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&oacute;</span> por muchos a<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&ntilde;</span>os el Instituto Jacques Maritain de Cuba (IJMC), organizaci<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&oacute;</span>n dedicada al estudio de problemas actuales a la luz del pensamiento del pensador cat<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&oacute;</span>lico franc<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&eacute;</span>s.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Jose Ignacio Rasco was born in Havana, Cuba. He studied at Belen and later received a Law degree from the University of Havana. In 1959 he founded the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) in Cuba and is currently its honorary chairman. He is a regular contributor to the Diario Las Americas and has published several books. In 1982, he founded, and for many years was president of, the Instituto Jacques Maritain de Cuba, an organization dedicated to the study of current problems in the light of this French Catholic philosopher. </span></span></span><br /><br />***************</p>
<p><em>Acuerdos, desacuerdos y recuerdos</em> recoge una serie de textos de Jos<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&eacute;</span> Ignacio Rasco, entre ellos varios de 1959 y 1960, que muestran sus comienzos en el espacio p<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&uacute;</span>blico cubano; una extensa semblanza de Fidel Castro, de quien fue compa<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&ntilde;</span>ero de curso en Bel<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&eacute;</span>n y en la Universidad de La Habana; y una larga entrevista que le hace en 1998 la Dra. Silvia Pedraza, profesora de sociolog<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&iacute;</span>a de la Universidad de Michigan-Ann Arbor, en que conversa con gran libertad sobre su amplia labor pol<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&iacute;</span>tica, llena de acuerdos, desacuerdos y, ya hoy, recuerdos. El lector se asomar<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&aacute;</span> no solo a la trayectoria vital de un notable intelectual y pol<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&iacute;</span>tico, sino a importantes pasajes de historia e intrahistoria cubana. Con fotograf<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&iacute;</span>as.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;<span lang="EN-GB">This book contains a series of texts written by Jose Ignacio Rasco, including several from 1959 and 1960, showing his beginnings in the Cuban public sector. He paints for us a vivid portrait of Fidel Castro, who was his classmate in Belen as well as in the University of Havana. Finally, the book contains a long interview granted in 1998 to Dr. Silvia Pedraza, professor of sociology at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where he talks with great freedom of his extensive political work, full of agreements and disagreements, and today, memories. These words, some written more than half a century ago, retain all the passion from these experiences. In these pages we hear the voice of Jose Ignacio Rasco saying "I was there". The reader will understand the life story of this remarkable intellectual and politician, as well as learn about Cuban history.</span><font face="Arial" size="3"><font face="Arial" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB">
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