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    Bayona (Pontevedra)

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Updated Monday, 26April2021-22: 38

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When

Jota

died in a Barcelona hospital bed in October 1981, no newspaper picked up the news.

What the press was talking about was the hangover of 23-F, the rise in the minimum wage to just over 25,000 pesetas (153.68 euros) and the new Divorce Law.

No one knew, not even himself, that he was the first victim of AIDS in Spain, a pandemic that seems forgotten in the

era of the pandemic

and that

has since killed 60,000 people

, the same official number of deaths from covid

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