Ernesto Cardenal

Ernesto Cardenal

Born 20 January 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua

Died 1 March 2020 (aged 95)

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.