Malalene biography definition

Nahua aide to Hernán Cortés

For the volcano in Tlaxcala, see Malinche (volcano).

Marina[maˈɾina] or Malintzin[maˈlintsin] (c. 1500 – c. 1529), more popularly known as La Malinche[lamaˈlintʃe], a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, became known for contributing to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521), by acting as an interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.^[1] She was one of 20 enslaved women given to the Spaniards in 1519 by the natives of Tabasco.

Cortés chose her as a consort, and she later gave birth to their first son, Martín – one of the first Mestizos (people of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry) in New Spain.

La Malinche's reputation has shifted over the centuries, as various peoples evaluate her role against their own societies' changing social and political perspectives.

Especially after the Mexican War of Independence, which led to Mexico