Overview
Olga Ots was born in Havana, Cuba. She completed her
secondary education in Havana and then came to the States to pursue an A.A. in
secretarial science at Sacred Heart Junior College in Belmont, North Carolina.
After returning to Cuba, she went through very dramatic experiences during
Batista’s dictatorship and the first two years of Fidel Castro Ruz’s regime.
Olga wrote this journal some time ago while living in the
U.S. She was motivated by seeing the great lack of knowledge that existed in
this country about how Fidel Castro Ruz came into power.
It was upon her return to visit Cuba in 2002-after
forty-one years of absence-that she decided to publish this journal.
What she found upon her trip to Cuba was a country that had
been frozen in 1959 and had deteriorated since. She was amazed to see how her
relatives had survived this ordeal. Human rights in Cuba are now nonexistent,
and native Cubans are treated as slaves in their own country.
Olga holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from CalState,
Los Angeles. She is also a retired
instructor from Pasadena City College, where she taught secretarial science.
At this time, she and her husband reside in
California.