At 86, Ernesto Cardenal can still muster passion for revolutions past and future. It’s the present that confounds Nicaragua’s cosmic poetic stylist, a towering figure in Latin American ...

Ernesto Cardenal, the poet and cleric who became a symbol of revolutionary verse throughout Latin America, died Sunday at a Managua hospital at 95.

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 ...

Father Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and Reina Sofia Prize winner, speaks during an Aug. 29, 2008, meeting at his house in Managua, Nicaragua. Father Cardenal died March 1, 2020, at the age of 95.

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.

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.

Renowned Nicaraguan poet and Roman Catholic cleric Ernesto Cardenal, who became a symbol of revolutionary verse in Nicaragua and around Latin America, and whose suspension from the priesthood by ...

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 ...

Ernesto Cardenal Martínez was born on Jan. 20, 1925, to an upper-class family in Granada, a city on Lake Nicaragua. He studied literature in Managua and at Columbia University in New York, ...

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 priesthood by St. John ...

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 ...