User:Swarabakti/La Malinche
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Marina or Malintzin (c. 1500 – c. 1529), more popularly known as La Malinche, was a woman from a minor Mesoamerican polity in the Gulf of Mexico who acted as an interpreter for Hernan Cortés in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. She, alongside 19 other slave women, were given to Cortés by a Maya group as part of a peace arrangement at Potonchán during the early days of Cortés's expedition. Malinche was a polyglot; she was able to converse in Nahuatl, Mayan, and, later, Spanish.
The real historical figure of Malinche has been obscured through legends and myths. Her figure if often mixed with the legendary La Llorona. Malinche is viewed differently by different groups … in 1980, a statue of her and Cortés was moved to a marginal place in the wake of a protest. Malinche legacy ... The Mexican word malinchismo and malinchista is often used …