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Malinche, also known as Malinalli, Malintzin or Doña Malinche, was a Mexican

woman. Malinalli was born around 1500 in Oluta, a town in Mexico.
Life
Malinalli was given to Hernan Cortés after the defeat of the Tabasqueños in the Battle
of Central on March 14, 1519 along with 19 other women.
She was an interpreter, advisor and intermediary for Hernan Cortés. Later she became
his companion and gave birth to his first son, named Martín, who is considered one of
the first mestizos to emerge from the conquest of Mexico
Later she would give birth with her Spanish husband Juan Jaramillo to Maria, her
second daughter.
The image of malinche
Malinche's image has been modified over time as the historical criteria have changed
since she burst into the conquest process when she was offered as a slave to be
conquered until more recently when her contribution to that process that finally formed
the new mestizo nation has been revalued. Today, for a part of Mexico's population,
Malinche is the stereotype of betrayal. Although others consider him to be the victim
par excellence of the cultural clash that took place, and for others more, he is the
symbolic mother of the new mestizo culture that emerged as a result of the forced fusion
of two ethnic groups.

The role of the malinche in the conquest of Mexico

For the conquerors, having a reliable interpreter was of utmost importance. Thus, Bernal
Diaz, a soldier-writer to whom we owe the true history of the conquest of New Spain,
constantly speaks of the "great woman" Doña Marina: "Without the help of Doña
Marina, he writes, we would not have understood the languages of New Spain and
Mexico". But the role of doña Marina went far beyond her role as a translator, for we
know that it was she who warned Cortés of the dangerous ambush that the Cholutecas
were preparing against the Spanish forces when they were resting inside his city on the
way to Tenochtitlan. This warning unleashed a fierce retaliation against the Cholultecas
by Cortés. Rodríguez de Ocaña, another conqueror, states that after God, the greatest
reason for the success of the conquest was Marina.
The word malinchismo is used in modern Mexico to refer to people who prefer a
different lifestyle to their local culture or a life with foreign influences. Some historians
interpret that the Malinche saved her people from the Aztecs, who had a hegemony over
all Mexican territory and demanded tribute from their inhabitants. She is also credited
for bringing Christianity from Europe to the "New World", and for her influence on
Cortés to make him more human than he would have been. However, on the other hand,
it is argued that without its help, the conquest of the Aztecs would not have been so fast,
which would have given them enough time to adapt to new technologies and methods of
warfare. From that point of view, Marina is seen as someone who betrayed the
indigenous people by siding with the Spaniards.
The image of malinche in Mexico today
The image of the Malinche has become a mythical archetype that Latin American artists
have represented through different art forms. Her figure propagates historical, cultural
and social dimensions of Latin American cultures.
- In 1978, Mexican singer-songwriter Gabino Palomares composed the song La
maldición de Malinche
- La Malinche, named Marina ("since her Indian name is too long to be written"), also
appears in the adventure novel Moctezuma's Daughter .
- Another novel of interest is Death of the Fifth Sun (1987) by Robert Somerlott, which
has La Malinche as its narrator.