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As music “that transcended enmities to forge a connection between all the people born of this land,” Vargas Llosa writes, channeling Toño’s enthusiasm, the vals is the exemplary art form of a “mongrel nation.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

But its removal lit up social media, rekindling historic enmities.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2025

Libyans from across the fragmented country have driven through old front lines regardless of bitter enmities to deliver aid to flood-stricken Derna this week, putting aside years of conflict between their divided leaders.

From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2023

But some supporters of the current leadership fear a court case may simply bring some of the old enmities and issues back to the fore.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2023

It was a “world criss-crossed by numerous patron-client relationships and family ties, in which major centers vied with one another in enmities that could endure for centuries.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann