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Example sentences for: merengue

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A much older “Latin” dance making a comeback is the merengue, which, when it first became popular, was considered to be so provocative that it was banned by the Spanish authorities.
Merengue is terrific music, too, but when, half a century ago, Trujillo ordered that sound systems be set up to play it all over the Dominican Republic, it wasn't to "uplift" people but to render them passive.