The century-old Phi Eta Mu fraternity will honor 15 of its members for their professional careers and contributions to Puerto Rico’s development at the Cena de Fraternos Destacados 2026 on Thursday, November 12, reviving a distinction not held since 2010, a 16-year gap. The dinner was established in 1980. Among the honorees are Puerto Rico Supreme Court Associate Justice Raúl Arnaldo Candelario López; interim federal prosecutor for the District of Puerto Rico Héctor Ramírez Carbó; Energy Bureau president Edison Avilés Deliz; and visual artist Antonio Martorell Cardona.
Also recognized are former Transportation and Public Works Department (DTOP) secretary Miguel Torres Díaz; former Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company executive director Eric Santiago Justiniano; and former Puerto Rico Insurance Companies Association (ACODESE) president Ramón A. Pérez Domínguez. The list also includes José Julio Aparicio Laspina, president of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce; Manuel Quilichini García, former president of the Puerto Rico Bar Association; agronomist Jorge Ramírez Medina, former Agriculture undersecretary and former president of the Hecho en Puerto Rico association; and attorney Fernando Quiñones Bodega, recognized for promoting sports on the island.
In education, medicine, engineering and sports, honorees are educator, physical education professor and Puerto Rican sports historian Héctor Díaz Salichs; pediatric orthopedics specialist and international lecturer Norman Ramírez Lluch; engineer and Puerto Rico chapter president of the Associated General Contractors Ismael Sánchez Figueroa; and Jorge O. Sosa Ramírez, commissioner of the Interuniversity Athletic League (LAI) governing board. Jeffrey Quiñones González, president of the council of former presidents, announced the honorees.
Fraternity president Pedro Bibiloni del Río said the ceremony recognizes members’ trajectories, preserves the legacy and inspires new generations.