 He has been awarded the Ricardo Miró Prize, the national literary award in Panama, twice, for novels "Dance of the Butterflies" (1994) and "Dream City" (1998).Following the leak of 11.5 million Mossack Fonseca documents by an anonymous whistle-blower to the German newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung" in 2016, it was revealed how offshore tax regimes were exploited for tax purposes.While offshore entities are not in themselves illegal, the documents showed how some of the more than 214,000 shell companies set up by Mossack Fonseca were used for illegal purposes, including fraud and tax evasion.