"To this day, the relationship between Hernn Corts and his translator La Malinche remains confusing. Was Corts a double-crossing murderer or a heroic conqueror? Was La Malinche, an enslaved woman from Aztec royalty, an intelligent woman doing what was necessary to stay alive or the betrayer of her people? The history books have not been kind to her. However you view this pair, one thing is clear: their stories cannot be told without linking their...

Learn about the Spanish conqueror's invasion of Mexico.