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Ernesto Cardenal

1925 - 2020

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Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) 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 (1965–1977). A former member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987. He was prohibited from administering the sacraments in 1984 by Pope John Paul II, but rehabilitated by Pope Francis in 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernesto Cardenal is the 4,852nd most popular politician (up from 5,753rd in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Nicaragua and the 5th most popular Nicaraguan Politician.

Ernesto Cardenal is most famous for being a Nicaraguan priest, poet, and revolutionary. He was also a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front.

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Among politicians, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 4,852 out of 19,576. Before him are John Rabe, Sancho I of Pamplona, Alexander I of Epirus, Julia, Geunchogo of Baekje, and Michel Suleiman. After him are Gannicus, Emperor Go-Fukakusa, Ricardo Lagos, Yuan Chonghuan, Tokugawa Yoshimune, and José Sarney.

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Among people born in 1925, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 92. Before him are Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, Martin Rodbell, Hal Holbrook, Hilda Gadea, Michel de Certeau, and Ernest Gellner. After him are Nicolai Gedda, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Toshio Iwatani, Gabriele Ferzetti, Charles Chaplin Jr., and Sufi Abu Taleb. Among people deceased in 2020, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 81. Before him are Mamadou Tandja, Moussa Traoré, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Gerald Carr, Tom Lister Jr., and Mirella Freni. After him are Pranab Mukherjee, Eddie Van Halen, Kobe Bryant, Lorenzo Sanz, Stanley Ho, and Michael Jeffery.

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In Nicaragua

Among people born in Nicaragua, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 7 out of 34. Before him are Daniel Ortega (1945), Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925), Augusto César Sandino (1895), Anastasio Somoza García (1896), Violeta Chamorro (1929), and Rubén Darío (1867). After him are Enrique Bolaños (1928), Barbara Carrera (1945), Leopoldo Brenes (1949), Luis Somoza Debayle (1922), Arnoldo Alemán (1946), and Bianca Jagger (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nicaragua

Among politicians born in Nicaragua, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 5. Before him are Daniel Ortega (1945), Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925), Anastasio Somoza García (1896), and Violeta Chamorro (1929). After him are Enrique Bolaños (1928), Luis Somoza Debayle (1922), Arnoldo Alemán (1946), José Santos Zelaya (1853), Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (1871), Juan Bautista Sacasa (1874), and Edén Pastora (1936).

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