Olga Viscal Garriga

Olga Viscal Garriga
Viscal Garriga on trial for refusing to recognize U.S. authority over Puerto Rico
BornMay 5, 1929
DiedJune 1, 1995 (aged 65)
Political partyPuerto Rican Nationalist Party
MovementPuerto Rican Independence
ChildrenPedro, Olga, and Maria Luz

Olga Isabel Viscal Garriga (May 5, 1929 – June 1, 1995) was a public orator and political activist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she moved to Puerto Rico, where she was a student leader and spokesperson of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party's branch in Rio Piedras. As an advocate for Puerto Rican independence, she was sentenced to eight years in a U.S. federal penitentiary, for refusing to recognize the sovereign authority of the United States over Puerto Rico.


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