Ballet malintzin biography

Traitor or survivor? The other look at La Malinche, the translator of Hernán Cortés

A few weeks after the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan, the figure of Malintzin, popularly known as La Malinche, must be reassessed with justice and greater historical knowledge, specialists agree.

In a broadcast of the Thursday of debate program, hosted by the senator and performing artist Jesusa Rodríguez in Capital 21, the woman from Oluta who served as Hernán Cortés’s translator was vindicated as a brave woman who imposed herself on an adverse situation and who, on the contrary, what has been said about her cannot be described as a “traitor”.

For the lawyer and writer Yelitza Ruiz, Malintzin has been historically slandered, like other women in national history, and tried as guilty of a series of crimes that illustrate the hostility with which women are viewed in historical processes.

“It is fair that this representation of Malintzin can give us that f