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In July 1950, he returned to Nicaragua, where he participated in the 1954 " April Revolution " against Anastasio Somoza García's regime.

The coup d ' état failed and ended with the deaths of many of his associates.

Cardenal subsequently entered the Trappist Monastery of Gethsemani ( Kentucky, United States ), under the other poet-priest Thomas Merton, but in 1959 he left to study theology in Cuernavaca, Mexico.