Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet, and politician (died 2020)

Ernesto Cardenal

Nicaraguan priest, poet, and politician (1925-2020)

Ernesto Cardenal Martínez was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965–1977). A former member of the Nicaraguan…