‘It is very important to vindicate her’: Mexico’s president want to reclaim the story of Malinche, 16th century translator for the conquistadors

fortune.com/2025/10/13/who-was-malinche-mexico-history-conquistador-translator-claudia-sheinbaum

The woman long blamed for her role in the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is getting a modern makeover.
The Spanish called her Marina, pre-Hispanic peoples knew her as Malintzin and later she was renamed Malinche. Her work as translator and interpreter for Spanish conquistador Hernán…

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