PUESTOS A LA MAÑANA - 12 DE FEBRERO DE 2026

·1 hr 16 min·6 clips

The Tourism Minister shows a map of 47 countries buying tickets for a local soccer match, but the hosts suspect VPN manipulation.

1. Puestos pa' la Mañana, a Puerto Rican political talk and investigative radio program on Radio Isla 1320 AM, airs live on February 12, 2026 with hosts Luis and Jonathan. 2. The hosts are identified by first names only; Luis mentions his experience as a licensed soccer referee and as a practicing attorney who handled environmental cases, and Jonathan serves as the primary investigative lead. 3. The episode's core thesis is that three unrelated-seeming stories — a soccer exhibition, a tourism contract, and a cabinet scandal — share a common thread of public money and misrepresentation. 4. The Puerto Rico Department of Education opened its digital enrollment portal for the 2026-27 school year; Luis enrolled his daughter for a Montessori school in Guaynabo in under three minutes, praising the system as simpler than the UPR's. 5. Lionel Messi's Copa Chicharrón exhibition match against Ecuadorian club LDU, scheduled for the Juan Ramón Lubriel stadium in Bayamón, was postponed after Messi posted a video apologizing to Puerto Rican fans following a leg injury in Ecuador. 6. Luis, who refereed 15-20 games at Juan Ramón Lubriel, explains the stadium has a chronic drainage problem because it was designed for baseball in the 1970s and uses natural grass, which does not recover quickly after sustained rain. 7. The Puerto Rico Tourism Company, led by director William Nett, gave $4 million to the event producer for the Copa Chicharrón, justifying it by presenting a world dashboard map showing ticket purchases from 47 countries including Sudan, Guinea Ecuatorial, the Canary Islands, Latvia, Bermuda, and Ireland. 8. The hosts argue the map is misleading because ticket resellers routinely use VPNs to bypass platform security, making domestic scalpers appear as international buyers and artificially inflating the apparent foreign-demand justification for the $4 million subsidy. 9. Senate President Tomás Rivera Schatz posted on social media that housing secretary nominee Ciari Pérez Peña disclosed to the Senate during her confirmation that she owned a vehicle inspection center in Yabucoa, designated HM0101. 10. Governor Jennifer González ordered Transportation Secretary to investigate the center after Rivera Schatz's disclosure, but the hosts note a conflict of interest: the same Transportation Secretary is named in the sworn declaration as having received political pressure from Pérez Peña. 11. Rafael Lenin López, on his program Primera Pregunta, cited sources claiming the DITOP imposed more than 400 violations on the center and an original fine exceeding $100,000, later reduced to $25,000 after Pérez Peña moved from the Resident Commissioner's office to the PNP's electoral commission role. 12. Pérez Peña's brother Cristian Noel Pérez Peña was interviewed at the Yabucoa center by Teleonce reporter Melissa Correa; he claimed not to know who owns the business, guessing it might be 'a parent,' while standing in front of the operating center. 13. Public incorporation records from Puerto Rico's Department of State show Yabucoa Auto Services LLC was registered on April 3, 2025 — months after Pérez Peña was confirmed as housing secretary — with the contact email [email protected]. 14. The LLC principal listed in the Office of Permit Management records is Noel A. Pérez Martínez, identified by the hosts as Ciari's father, directly contradicting both her written denial and her brother's televised statement. 15. The Office of Permit Management records further show that on May 11, 2025, the center's operating permit was renewed under Pérez Peña's name and transferred to the new LLC the same day — a same-day transfer executed while she was serving as a cabinet secretary. 16. Senator Juan Óscar Morales appeared on Noti1 host Carmen Jovet's afternoon program and confirmed knowing the identity of the anonymous declarant, describing him as a PNP attorney currently sidelined without a computer in an office with no functions. 17. The hosts also mention a separate, still-developing investigation into an Ecomax gas station in Maunabo with environmental contamination issues involving the eastern aquifer, which they link to the housing secretary in a thread they promise to detail after a break — but the transcript is cut before that reveal. 18. The episode's tone is conversational investigative journalism: the hosts present documents on screen for video viewers, read record numbers aloud, and editorialize freely while maintaining the paper-trail as the evidentiary spine. 19. The target audience is Puerto Ricans following island politics, government accountability, and the Pérez Peña cabinet scandal. 20. Listeners unfamiliar with Puerto Rico's government structure, PNP/PPD party dynamics, or the Pérez Peña story from prior episodes will find the episode dense without that context.

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