"The Pulse of Sea and Land: Reflections from Baja California Sur"

As we celebrate the arrival of renowned chefs who are putting La Paz on the culinary map, we wonder what will happen to the small businesses that sustain the daily life of these neighborhoods.

Sebastián Del Mar

By Sebastián del Mar

Every Friday I sit in front of the sea, on a small terrace in Todos Santos , and I ask myself: what does it really mean to live here, in Baja California Sur?

Beyond the headlines we're hearing this week— security , the culinary boom , environmental threats , technological innovations , and the rise of water sports —there's an invisible thread that ties it all together: our intimate, sometimes fragile, relationship with this land.

Baja California Sur is a place of contrasts: luxury and simplicity, pristine landscape and accelerated development, tradition and modernity. This week's articles remind us of this: while we celebrate students designing marine drones to protect ecosystems, we simultaneously see how the El Mogote mangroves are degrading under the weight of voracious urbanization.

As we celebrate the arrival of renowned chefs who are putting La Paz on the culinary map, we wonder what will happen to the small businesses that sustain the daily life of these neighborhoods.

As residents—permanent or temporary, local or foreign—we have a responsibility to look beyond trends and figures. We must ask ourselves: What kind of Baja California Sur do we want to build together? How can we be more responsible tourists, more conscious investors, more active citizens?

The state security pact is not only a government commitment; it's also a call for shared responsibility: taking care of our streets, our beaches, our common spaces.

Today, as the sun sets behind the palm trees and the salty air fills my lungs, I remember why I write: because I believe in the power of public conversation, because I believe that telling stories is also a way of caring for what we love.

We'll see each other next Friday, to continue taking the pulse of the sea and the land.