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How many guns are too many guns? | EL PAÍS USA EDITION | | | |
Dear readers, In 2023, there were 77,813 outlets in the United States where guns could be purchased legally. That is a number similar to the combined amount of McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway, and Wendy’s restaurants in the entire United States. In Mexico, on the other hand, there are only two centers for legally acquiring firearms, both administered by the Secretariat of National Defense. Still, the most conservative studies estimate there are 17 million firearms circulating illegally in Mexico, and the country’s Foreign Ministry calculated two million weapons were trafficked in the last decade. Weapons in Mexico have not only served to kill. Their most profound impact is that they have functioned as vectors for the expansion of criminal networks in the region, leaving the authorities facing a very different criminal problem than it did 15 years ago. Firearms have empowered organized crime groups and challenged the state’s ability to deal with them. EL PAÍS took an in-depth look at the issue and the factors that feed the river of steel flowing over the border.
This week we interviewed former U.S. vice-president AL Gore, who has become a leading figure in the struggle to combat the effects of climate change and a bête noir of the fossil fuel industry, which the Nobel laureate cites as being the main actor responsible for climate change and global warming. “We are pressing against the limits of what the ecological systems of the Earth can tolerate without breaking,” the former presidential candidate said. “Extreme, climate-related events have been changing people’s minds and waking them up to the reality that we cannot continue to use the sky as an open sewer […] We can’t destroy our home, we only have one and we have to protect it. We’re not going to get rocket ships and go to Mars.”
We also reported on a growing global phenomenon and one that has hit the Portuguese capital Lisbon particularly hard: over-tourism and the flight of local residents from city centers in the face of encroaching real estate investors. Lisbon has lost 30% of its population since 2013 and today 60% of properties in the city are tourist apartments. Last year, 700,000 cruise ship passengers descended on Lisbon, where long-standing business and cultural institutions are struggling to survive amid a sea of tuk-tuks and souvenir shops. “When I go to Baixa or Chiado, I feel like I’m in an amusement park for foreigners,” said Pedro Martins Barata, president of the Academia de Amadores de Música, founded in 1884. “Tourism has decimated everything.” We hope you enjoy this selection of stories. | | | | | | |
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| | Lisbon, a city dying from its own success | A traditional mix of authenticity, melancholy, rusticity and modernity, the Portuguese capital has become a mecca for international tourism. But it has paid the price in the form of gentrification and the loss of its essence | | | |
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