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I wonder how long it will be before Spain goes down the same path as Mexico? I know they have regular meetings with the South American countries they used to control, a little like the Commonwealth heads of state get togethers.

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Interior launches the third phase of the plan against trafficking and drug use in schools
Levante Castelló, Castelló
The Strategic Plan Response Retail Traffic Police and the Drug use in schools began yesterday its third phase. This initiative, promoted by the Ministry of Interior, "is contributing to the reduction and elimination of trafficking and drug use in schools and their environments," according assured the delegate of the Government in the Valencia region, Ricardo Peralta.
"This plan-said the delegate-responds to the objective of the Government of Spain, responding to requests from parents, teachers and students, to ensure that schools are primarily educational, not only in the field of subjects but also in securities for citizens. " According to the delegate said, "the means at its disposal this plan, but are not purely repressive preventive talks, explanations for teachers and students so that they know how to respond to such situations, are already under way." Peralta also stressed the importance of collaboration with those responsible for schools, parents associations and neighborhood groups and business sector of leisure.
In fact already made 500 meetings with responsible school. Since the inception of this initiative, in January 2006, in the Comunitat have arrested 47 people and raised 1,556 complaints for possession and consumption of drugs within schools.
Within this framework have been monitored 350 sites have been turned off and 21 outlets of narcotic substances.