Sin Comillas reprints the CPI: the DDEC hides the breakdown of 59 tourism decrees from 2024

On August 27, 2025, Sin Comillas reprints that the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo sued the DDEC before the Court of First Instance of San Juan for failing to deliver public data on incentives, exemptions, and decrees of tourism corporations. The photo on that page shows Sebastián Negrón Reichard, DDEC secretary in the caption by Brandon Cruz González.

Damaris Suárez Lugo, according to the text, requested information on 59 entities with Office of Incentives decrees in 2024 and on any other approved afterward: name, type of activity, location, credit, new jobs, files, annual reports, and Agreed Upon Procedure reports. The Interamericana Legal Aid Clinic asked for delivery on or before July 29. The DDEC promised August 5, asked an extension to the 19th, and, when the date arrived, denied with a link from its website that did not contain those data.

The agency, Sin Comillas says, did not deny having the information; it invoked Ley 60 confidentiality not to deliver it disaggregated. The mandamus, the page reproduces, cites Article 8 of Ley 141-2019 and its interpretation clause. Carla Minet said: «What we are asking for is basic information on the use of public funds in tax incentives for the tourism industry… transparency about who receives these benefits and under what conditions».

This note does not name Cidre: the page does not name him. It is not fused with the June 30, 2026 scandal or with the Sembrando Sentido mandamus. What remains is August 27: 59 decrees, an empty link, and a secretary in the photo. This is not original reporting.

Suárez Lugo, according to the reprint, said the press needs data to oversee the return on that investment the Government decided not to receive. The DDEC invoked the Incentives Code. What remains is August 27 and the link that did not have the 59 decrees.

Source: Sin Comillas (reprint of the CPI, Aug. 27, 2025). https://sincomillas.com/periodistas-demanda-al-ddec-por-ocultar-datos-sobre-incentivos/