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What made La Malinche a hero and a traitor to her own people?

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La Malinche was a key figure in the conquest of the Aztecs. ... Lesser-known, though no less important, is a brilliant and multilingual exiled Aztec woman who was enslaved, then served as a guide and interpreter, then became Cortés's mistress. She was known as Doña Marina, Malintzin, and more widely as La Malinche.

Meet the Woman Who Betrayed the Aztecs

A young native princess named Malinali from the town of Painala was sold into enslavement sometime between 1500 and 1518.

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La Malinche (c. 1496 or c. 1505 - c. 1529, some sources give 1550-1551), known also as Malintzin, Malinalli or Doña Marina, was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played a role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico, acting as interpreter, advisor, lover and intermediary for Hernán Cortés.

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