Alvaro Ruidez, a spokesman for La Rioja's health service, told me.

拉里奥哈州卫生服务部门的发言人阿尔瓦罗·鲁德兹告诉我。

Blame and stigma were part of La Rioja's experience of the pandemic from the very start.

从一开始，指责和耻辱就成为了拉里奥哈地区应对疫情的一部分。

La Rioja is a semi-autonomous region, with a population of just 315,000 and one of the highest living standards in Spain.

拉里奥哈是一个半自治地区，人口只有31.5万，是西班牙生活水平最高的地区之一。

La Rioja's rationale for not sharing death figures for towns (or health districts) was precisely to avoid this kind of stigma.

拉里奥哈不分享城镇(或卫生区)死亡数字的理由正是为了避免这种耻辱。

" We are all fine, " it read. They hung the poster from a balcony and sent a photograph to La Rioja newspaper.

上面写着，“我们都很好”。他们把海报挂在阳台上，并寄了一张照片给《里奥哈日报》。

A spokesman for La Rioja's regional government told me that the decision not to give details from specific towns was to prevent them being stigmatised.

拉里奥哈地区政府发言人告诉我，决定不提供具体城镇的细节是为了防止它们被污名化。

Duenas does not live in Santo Domingo, a town of 6,300 people set among patchwork fields of cereal crops in the northern Spanish region of La Rioja.

杜埃纳斯并不居住在圣多明戈，那是一个拥有6300人口的小镇，位于西班牙北部拉里奥哈地区的错落的谷物田里。

" A lot of lies were told, and people were bombarded with threatening messages, " Silvia Aguero, a Roma activist and writer in La Rioja, told me.

他们说了很多谎言，人们受到威胁短信的狂轰滥炸，”拉里奥哈地区的罗姆人活动人士、作家西尔维亚·阿奎罗告诉我。