Thousands of people gathered well before 12:00 pm in the central Weyler Square in Santa Cruz de Tenerife to march through the streets of Santa Cruz in the demonstration organized by various environmental groups to protest against the current Canary Islands’ economic model.
The march was filled with chants, flags, and banners that were unfurled in the city centre of Tenerife’s capital to demand change. The homemade banners carried all sorts of slogans, some in a humorous tone, others targeting politicians, some addressing housing issues, and others calling for stricter regulations on the tourism industry in the Islands…
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Mobilizations across the Canary Islands
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Thousands of people took to the streets on Saturday in the eight islands of the Canary Islands to demand in unison a shift in the mass tourism model and, by extension, the socio-economic model of the archipelago in an event that echoes the historic large-scale mobilizations experienced in this community.
At 12:00 p.m., the demonstrations began under the slogan ‘Canary Islands have a limit’ throughout the archipelago except in La Palma, where it will take place at 5:00 p.m., on a day when there are also gatherings in different Spanish and European cities.
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In fact, the earliest risers were the Canarians in the capital of Spain, who gathered at Puerta del Sol to criticize an economic model that “is pushing us out of our land.” “Today we are here because we cannot be there,” stated a woman who read the manifesto.
