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Marina [maˈɾina] or Malintzin [maˈlintsin] ( c. 1500 – c. 1529), more popularly known as La Malinche [la maˈlintʃe], a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, became known for contributing to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521), by acting as an interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. [1]
Mar 1, 2019 · La Malinche was a key figure in the conquest of the Aztecs. But was she a heroine or a traitor? It depends on whom you ask.
Jul 30, 2021 · In 1519, as Spain began brutally ravaging Mesoamerica, conquistador Hernán Cortés encountered the secret weapon who would help seal his victory: La Malinche. An enslaved Aztec girl who had been...
La Malinche, also known as Malintzin or Doña Marina, is a figure of profound historical significance and enduring controversy. Born in the early 16th century, she would become a pivotal character in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, serving as interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.
In modern Mexican culture, her nickname, La Malinche, has become synonymous with deceit and betrayal. But this interpretation of Malintzin’s actions ignores one key fact: throughout the conquest, no matter how much power she seemed to have, Malintzin was enslaved.
May 28, 2020 · La Malinche was a native Mesoamerican woman of a Nahua tribe who became a trusted adviser and translator to Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. Her guidance proved instrumental in his takeover of the Aztec empire and by some accounts, she was also Cortés’s lover and mother of his child.
At its center was a single Indigenous girl whose life story has been revisited and reinterpreted over the centuries: La Malinche, a figure at once beloved and reviled and about whom little is certain except that her legacy will remain fraught for a long time to come.
Jul 15, 2022 · A young Indigenous woman known as La Malinche played a central role in communicating between the Spanish and Indigenous populations of Mexico 500 years ago. The teenager had been gifted to...
Jun 16, 2024 · While historians can say with some certainty that there was an Amerindian woman who translated for Hernán Cortés and helped him to conquer the Mexica, more commonly known as the Aztecs, Malinche appears to be an ambiguous figure in both Spanish and Nahuatl (Mexica) accounts of her. The ambiguity about her in these records says a great deal ...
Easily the most elusive, eminent figure in the history of the Americas, Doña Marina, “La Malinche,” defies basic biographical description. Indeed, very little is known about her, and nothing really of the date and place of her birth, the cause or place of her death, or even her very name.
