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El Sentinel del Sur de la Florida

Spanish-language newspaper, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ5352148 ↗
Source-derived summary

El Sentinel del Sur de Florida (Spanish for "South Florida Sentinel") is a weekly Spanish-language newspaper published in Deerfield Beach, Florida by the South Florida Sun Sentinel Company, a subsidiary of Tribune Publishing of Chicago, which also publishes the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. El Sentinel began publication on October 12, 2002.

The newspaper's main competitor in the South Florida metropolitan area is El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish edition of the Miami Herald.

El Sentinel covers all Florida and is mainly distributed in Palm Beach and Broward counties.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “El Sentinel del Sur de la Florida” is spanish-language newspaper, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, US. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sentinel, Florida and Spanish-language, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003-01-01. For this dossier, Sentinel, Florida and Spanish-language is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “spanish-language newspaper, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, US” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5352148. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “El Sentinel del Sur de la Florida”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow El Sentinel del Sur de la Florida primary sources, El Sentinel del Sur de la Florida archive and Sentinel research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “El Sentinel del Sur de la Florida” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.