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Arlen Siu
Nicaraguan revolutionary

Arlen Siu

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Nicaraguan revolutionary
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Place of birth
Jinotepe, Carazo Department, Nicaragua
Place of death
El Sauce, León Department, Nicaragua
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20 years
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Biography

Arlen Siu (15), martyr of the Sandinista revolution
A group of Nicaraguans holding and marching with a picture of Arlen Siu and the FSLN flag in Jinotepe 3 years after her death

Arlen Siu Bermúdez (15 July 1955 – 1 August 1975), a Chinese Nicaraguan woman, was the first female to be killed in the Sandinista revolution.

Early life

Arlen Siu was born on 15 July 1955 in Jinotepe, Nicaragua. Her father, Armando Siu Lau, was born in Guangdong, China, and immigrated to Nicaragua in the late 1940s after serving in the Communist Revolutionary Army. He later married a Nicaraguan woman. Arlen Siu attended La Escuela Normal de Señoritas (Young Women's Normal School) in Jinotepe, and she later attended UNAN, where she often sang with Marlene Álvarez, a member of a music group named Pancasán.

Career

Siu was 18 when she joined the Sandinistas.She had already attained a level of national celebrity as a talented songwriter, singer, and guitarist by the time she joined the movement. She was killed August 1, 1975 during an ambush near El Sauce, Leon, Nicaragua, by soldiers from Anastasio Somoza Debayle's National Guard. She was twenty years old.

She is considered by many in Nicaragua to be one of the earliest deaths in the revolutionary movement. Her artistic works and critical essays on Marxism and feminism served as an inspiration to both the Sandinista movement and the Nicaraguan women's movement.Her picture was often displayed at FSLN celebrations throughout Nicaragua. Managua and El Rama have neighborhoods named after her, and a park in León is also named after her.

Siu wrote a song entitled "Maria Rural", and since her death, it has been sung by Marlene Alvarez and Grupo Pancasán, among others.

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