"The concept of cultural work that Ernesto Cardenal had was holistic, integral, inclusive, and comprehensive; it is clearly expressed in several of his speeches and writings. It would be necessary to read at least some of them, for example For a Culture of Peace, World Peace and the Nicaraguan Revolution, Culture and Sovereignty, etc., and above all, The Democratization of Culture, that I consider a key text to understand the scope of the cultural project that Ernesto wanted to realize in Nicaragua."
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Ernesto Cardenal
1965 – 1977
Ernesto Cardenal MartĂnez (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 2
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