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Ernesto Cardenal

Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (1925–2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, revolutionary, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands. A former member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, he served as Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987.