But the man in the beret pulls it off, as he has for decades. At 86, Ernesto Cardenal can still muster passion for revolutions past and future. It’s the present that confounds Nicaragua’s ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Ernesto Cardenal, the renowned poet and Roman Catholic cleric who became a symbol of revolutionary verse throughout Latin America, and whose suspension from the priesthood ...

Probably the most famous image of Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan priest, poet, mystic and revolutionary, who died on March 1, 2020, at the age of 95, came when Pope John Paul II visited Managua ...

REYNOSA, Mexico (CNS) -- Father Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan poet and revolutionary whose political work earned him a public admonishment from St. John Paul II, died March 1 in the Nicaraguan ...

ERNESTO CARDENAL (through translator): Well, I was about 6 years old when Sandino was murdered by Somoza — 7 years old. But later, and once dead, a movement in favor of Sandino began. As a young ...

At 86, Ernesto Cardenal is known as one of Latin America’s greatest living poets. His recent work reflects on humanity’s connection to nature and relationship to the universe. But even in his ...

Father Ernesto Cardenal, a Nicaraguan poet, priest and political revolutionary who wielded his pen as a weapon against two autocratic regimes — the Somoza family dynasty and the left-wing ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Ernesto Cardenal, the renowned poet and Roman Catholic cleric who became a symbol of revolutionary verse in Nicaragua and around Latin America, and whose suspension from the ...

Father Cardenal defied the Roman Catholic Church in the 1980s by serving as a minister in the revolutionary government of Nicaragua. By Elias E. Lopez The Rev. Ernesto Cardenal, one of Latin ...

This Aug. 29, 2008, file photo shows Nicaraguan priest and poet Ernesto Cardenal in his home while under house arrest, in Managua, Nicaragua. (AP/Esteban Felix) Ernesto Cardenal, the renowned poet ...

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