World’s Largest Fish Burrito – La Paz, Baja, Mexico

On November 3, 2010, the world’s largest fish burrito was assembled in La Paz, Baja, Mexico and certified by Guinness’ record keepers. It was 2.7 km (1.62 miles) long and weighed 5.9 tonnelados (6.49 tons US) – the event took place on the Malecon in La Paz. I wasn’t there, sigh, so have no photos but below are two links with more info and the first one has some photos:

World Record Fish Burrito – La Paz, Baja, Mexico

World Record Fish Burrito Details

Municipal Services – Todos Santos Baja Mexico

As you may or may not know, Todos Santos is part of the municipality (county) of La Paz so decisions about our services and payment for them are made in La Paz, not in Todos Santos.

The presidente (mayor) of La Paz has been Rosa Delia but she resigned in order to run in the primary elections for governor. Rene Nuñez, presidente of Los Cabos, did the same thing. Neither was selected in the primary but it seems that both managed to drain the treasury of each municipality. On the streets in La Paz, they refer to Rosa Delia as Roba Delia, as in robbar, to rob.

What’s this got to do with Todos Santos? Plenty! Around primary election time, garbage collection outside of the center of town virtually stopped. In Las Tunas, we have had collection twice in 9 weeks, averaging about once a month. At first I heard stories that the truck was broken and a flatbed was being used to collect in centro Todos Santos. But then I saw a garbage truck doing the rounds. At least they finally made it out to us. I figure there simply wasn’t enough money to pay for our weekly garbage pickups. Thank you Roba, I mean Rosa.

To generate cash to last to the end of the year, the municipality is offering large discounts on property taxes for next year, in effect robbing Peter to pay Paul. But Peter will come around late next year looking for his money too.