Yesterday the acclaimed author and highly regarded political commentator Mario Vargas Llosa published a long and powerful opinion column in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Spain’s largest daily newspaper, El Pais. Mr. Vargas Llosa makes reference to previous statements of support from French intellectual Andre Glucksmann, Elena Bonner and Anna Politkovskaya. Below is our translation of the article, which speaks for itself. Read the original Spanish version here. Khodorkovsky in Siberia By Mario Vargas Llosa, El Pais, Feb. 24, 2008, page 43 The former boss of the oil company Yukos is suffering a hard sentence for his chimerical aspiration to participate in Russian politics as a critic and democratic opponent of the new czar, Vladimir Putin.