Puestos pa' la mañana - Miércoles, 11 de febrero de 2026

·1 hr 32 min·7 clips

The Puerto Rico housing secretary finally breaks her silence with a statement so badly written it seems like a WhatsApp message.

1. Puestos pa' la Mañana airs its Wednesday, February 11, 2026 edition on Radio Isla 1320 AM from the ATH Mobile studio in San Juan, hosted by Luis Herrero and Jonathan Lebrón. 2. Luis Herrero is identified as a political analyst and attorney; Jonathan Lebrón is a journalist who arrives late after a power failure near the station. 3. The episode opens with a community alert about pet poisonings in the Condado and Isla Verde areas, where an unknown person is leaving rat poison disguised as dog food; the hosts provide police hotline numbers 787-343-2020 and Recursos Naturales at 724-5700. 4. The core investigative thread — the Yabucoa inspection center scandal involving housing secretary Ciari Pérez Peña — is recapped: a sworn declaration by DITOP inspector Aníbal Torres documents nearly 2,000 violations and a fine of at least $25,000, with the center currently listed on a 2025 permit under Pérez Peña's name. 5. Video from the Fortaleza weekly press conference (En Record) shows Public Affairs Secretary Jean Pérez Peña praising the housing secretary's performance and saying she 'currently has no link' to the inspection center, while acknowledging the audit occurred before her cabinet tenure. 6. A reporter at the press conference points out that Pérez Peña was still the listed owner during the 2024 audit period, which the Public Affairs Secretary deflects to 'legal implications' without substantive response. 7. The housing secretary issued her first written statement dismissing the allegations as anonymous defamation; the hosts criticize its poor grammar and note it uses the same 'attack the anonymous source' strategy as other officials under scrutiny. 8. PNP Senator Héctor Joaquín Sánchez, a member of the Senate Nominations Committee, told Radio Isla host Mili Méndez that he and his colleagues are learning about the inspection center from press coverage — not from internal Senate intelligence. 9. Representatives Suany Vargas and Ramón Torres referred the matter to the Puerto Rico Justice Department on February 11, citing the need for transparent investigation of a public official. 10. The hosts obtained and projected the Nominations Committee's official confirmation report for Pérez Peña, dated February 10, 2025, which covers her education (accounting 2001, law 2020) and public-sector roles without any mention of business interests or corporate participations. 11. The financial analysis section of the confirmation report states a CPA found she met all tax and financial obligations with 'no conflicting investments or participations' — a finding the hosts argue is inconsistent with an outstanding fine owed to DITOP and Treasury. 12. The hosts call on four entities to release information: the Senate Nominations Committee (full financial disclosure), DITOP (complete list of fines by center, ranked highest to lowest), the Treasury Department (any obligation records related to the center), and the Government Ethics Office (her annual financial disclosure showing business assets). 13. The OCP operating permit for center HM0101, projected on screen, was issued May 11, 2025, naming Ciari Pérez Peña as owner, with a validity period through May 12, 2026 — meaning it was current at the time of broadcast. 14. The hosts note that Pérez Peña's Senate financial disclosure should have included the inspection center under the required field asking nominees to list all corporate investments and participations, and the hosts argue she either omitted it or the committee failed to flag it. 15. Sources tell the hosts that Governor González's Chief of Staff Francisco Doménech was not among Pérez Peña's supporters, having preferred current undersecretary of the governor Itza García for the housing post; the governor herself made the final call based on Pérez Peña's regional housing director experience post-Hurricane María. 16. The hosts speculate that Doménech's conspicuous silence during the scandal — unusual for an official known to defend 'his roosters' publicly — may reflect a political calculation to allow the secretary to fall without executive intervention. 17. El Nuevo Día's front page on February 11 reports that lack of funds is halting $91.5 million in housing and rehabilitation projects in 21 municipalities, with 33 city-revitalization projects paused — directly at odds with the housing secretary's promise in her denial statement to continue her public duties. 18. The episode includes brief digressions on Nielsen's new multiplex Super Bowl ratings methodology, which combines TV, streaming, bar, and public-venue viewing to produce a more comprehensive number, and why the delay in releasing official figures had nothing to do with a conspiracy. 19. The tone is sustained investigative radio: documents are projected on screen for video viewers, reporters' questions are played back verbatim, and the hosts editorialize based on the paper trail. 20. This episode is essential for listeners following the Pérez Peña story from the beginning, but requires context from the prior week's reporting; standalone listeners should start with the Monday episode.

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