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Tens of thousands of demonstrators hit the streets across Spain’s Canary Islands on Saturday to demand changes to the model of mass tourism they say is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago.
Rallying under the slogan “The Canary Islands have a limit”, demonstrators began rallying at midday (1100 GMT), flag-waving crowds packing the streets of the main towns across all of the archipelago’s seven islands.
Chanting and whistling, they waved scores of placards and banners emblazoned with slogans reading: “The Canary Islands are not up for sale!” or “A moratorium on tourism” while others simply said: “Respect my home”.
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