You read that correctly. Really. The Texas State Department of Transportation used approximately $80,000 taxpayer dollars to produce Spanish telanovelas to reach out to the Spanish speaking community. You can read news accounts of the event here.
The Department has apparently already produced three of them. I am not sure this is the best use of taxpayer dollars in a recession, but that is just my opinion. Even if you are a Spanish only speaker, I find it hard to believe that you need a Government movie to inform you that driving after you have become intoxicated is 1. a bad idea and 2. illegal. Below is a link to a video of one of the telanovelas.
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