Early Years
Olga Viscal's (birth name Olga Isabel Viscal Garriga ) parents, Francisco Viscal Bravo and Laura Garriga Gonzalez, moved from Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, New York, where she was born in the in early 1920s. Olga, one of seven children born to the couple, was also the fourth great-granddaughter of Field Marshal Don Juan Andres Daban y Busterino, who served as the Spanish-appointed Governor and General Captain of Puerto Rico from 1783-89.
Her parents returned to Puerto Rico and settled in Rio Piedras, where she was raised and educated. Olga Viscal was witness to the discrimination of Puerto Ricans in New York and strongly disagreed with U.S. policies limiting human rights, freedom of speech, and self-determination in Puerto Rico.
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