He is the winner of the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression’s 2008 International Press Freedom Award and the Human Rights Watch’s 2008 Hellman/Hammet Award. He is a Saul Rae Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto and member of PEN Canada’s writers in exile network. He is as visiting fellow at the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto where he is researching press freedom, freedom of expression, and organized crime. Luis is currently M.A. student at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.