Jesús Hermida Pineda OAXS (27 June 1937 – 4 May 2015) was a Spanish journalist. He worked as a U.S.

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for

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. Hermida was born

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. He died from a

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, at the age of 77.

Honours

* Knight Grand Cross of the

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(''Posthumous'', Kingdom of Spain, 9 October 2015).

References

1937 births 2015 deaths Spanish television journalists Spanish male writers People from Huelva Spanish male journalists {{Spain-journalist-stub