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First of all I posted it as a vanity and something I received in an email. People make all kinds of claims in emails - but the opinion and writing was still excellent.

I got it as an email twice over the weekend. Agree with everything you've said about the opinion and writing. I also agree with what you say about people making all kinds of claims in emails.

Then we were kindly provided with a link to the article at a website that is still in existence as of today. That was a bonus.

Not really. If you Google "Sebastian Villar Rodriguez" you will find a this several pages of links showing where this piece had been published on a number of websites, including the link you provided. However, the link you provided wasn't to the primary source.

You are trying to discredit the piece.

If I was trying to discredit the piece by wondering which newspaper had originally published the paper, then were you trying to discredit the piece by commenting that "People make all kinds of claims in emails"?

Of course not. The ideas in the piece speak for themselves, and hit the X-ring. However, I was questioning the origin of the piece. As circulated, the item claimed that Mr. Rodriguez' article had been published in a Spanish newspaper. I found it curious that no citation or URL was provided to the primary source, and this raised my suspicion that its provenance might not be as advertised. I was pleased to find that the article had actually been published by what appears to be a genuine news/opinion journal with a website, and had not just originated on some random guy's blog.

My Spanish is too rusty to translate the original article, or, more important, the "Who We Are" section of the newspaper's website, running it through Google's translator yields mostly gibberish, and so I'll have to wait for my bilingual wife to return from visiting her family to understand the website.

Best wishes.