Padre Miguel and I became friends during a Nicaragua Network/School of the Americas Watch delegation I helped organize in Nicaragua. We discovered a mutual love for Chile's great singer/martyr, Victor Jara, whose entire life and frightful death bore witness to his own profound 'option for the poor'. Singing Padre Miguel, "Te Recuerdo Amanda" remains one of my loveliest-ever 'concerts'.  
But, tender as he was, Padre Miguel was also steel itself.  At the height of the  'Contra' War to overthrow the revolution of free health care and education he served, Padre Miguel won an International Court of Justice judgment against the USA. For terrorism! Initial damages were set at US$17bn. The US still hasn't paid. We used to say, wistfully, "With even modest interest, just how much good could that do today?" As the US continues to destabilize his beloved Nicaragua, honor Padre Miguel by re-committing ourselves to resistance to greedy power, and to justice for all the world's impoverished.