Spain has officially called a snap general election for November amid severe budget gridlock, a terrifying democratic crisis that has sent shockwaves through absolutely nobody currently drinking a three-dollar Pacifico at a Todos Santos taco stand. While Madrid tears itself apart over fiscal policy, foreign retirees here are locked in a much more brutal debate over whether to tip the beach vendor fifteen or twenty pesos. Democracy may be dying in Europe, but the happy hour specials at the local palapa remain miraculously bipartisan.