Bautista Goyel Álvarez Domínguez (1933 – 16 September 2017) was a Galician

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politician and historian. He was born in San Amaro,

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. Álvarez, who was a founding member of the

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in 1964, also served as the Galician political party's President from 1964 through 1977. Álvarez died of a

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on 16 September 2017 at his sister's home in

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, Spain at the age of 84.Muere Bautista Álvarez, histórico del BNG

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