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Ernesto Cardenal
Ernesto Cardenal was a Nicaraguan poet and Catholic priest, a leading figure of liberation theology in Latin America. He founded a Christian community on the Solentiname islands in Lake Nicaragua and supported the Sandinista revolution, serving as minister of culture from 1979 to 1987; Pope John Paul II publicly rebuked him in 1983. His poetry, including Hora 0 and the Salmos, made him one of the best-known Latin American poets of his time.
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