Jul 31 2014 There is no forgiveness for Malinche

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  The Indian who was lover and translator of Hernán Cortés in Mexico still symbolizes the quintessence of betrayal. Five centuries later, Doña Marina, as the conqueror, still waiting for redemption.

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  The Indian who was lover and translator of Hernán Cortés in Mexico still symbolizes the quintessence of betrayal. Five centuries later, Doña Marina, as the conqueror, still waiting for redemption.

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  The Indian who was lover and translator of Hernán Cortés in Mexico still symbolizes the quintessence of betrayal. Five centuries later, Doña Marina, as the conqueror, still waiting for redemption.

Few remember her as the epic of the conquest of the Aztec empire is remembered by Hernán Cortés commanding a small force of 400 Spaniards now almost five centuries. But, the Malinche, Indian teenager gifted conqueror in April 1519 by Tabascans at the dawn of this formidable adventure, It was decisive in the subjection of domains Moctezuma. She became his mistress and gave birth to her firstborn but, especially, Dona Marina, name that was baptized, It was the translator of Cortés in their advance towards the heart of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan, the actual Mexico DF, and its work was instrumental in the Extremaduran conqueror could achieve its goal. Not only allowed him to deploy strategies and diplomacy, but he warned the Spaniards of Indian conspiracies that were violently suppressed.

Five centuries later, his countrymen still do not forgive that colaboracionismo. La Malinche is, as rightly he pointed Octavio Paz, "A figure representing Indian, fascinated, raped or seduced by the Spaniards ", ultimately "the symbol of surrender" to foreigners. And do not forget Mexico. "Just as the child does not forgive his mother who leaves to go in search of his father, the Mexican people have not forgiven his betrayal Malinche ", He reflected the Nobel Prize.

The young Indian was decisive in the subjugation of Moctezuma domains

The Malinche, despite fifteen years, He had already suffered the most painful betrayal, of a mother, when his path crossed with that of Cortés. Daughter of chieftains Jalisco, when his father died his mother married another notable, with whom he had a son. Determined that it was he who inherit, They sold it to a slave merchants Xicalanco. Maybe Dona Marina was predestined since then to surrender to the invader to help settle the ancestral culture that had turned his back. In that line, Bartolomé Benassar argues that "the values ​​of his people, she would contribute decisively to destroy their immediate accession to the Spanish company, They were also the values ​​that had shattered his childhood and youth ".

Hernán Cortés already had a translator when the Spanish expedition Malinche joined, Jeronimo de Aguilar, whom he had rescued captive after seven years in an Indian tribe after a shipwreck. But only the Maya dominated Aguilar and Dona Marina, Also speaking Nahuatl Aztec. It was a matter of -the time it took to learn Spanish- that indigenous young should become the only translator of the conquerors.

Maybe Dona Marina was predestined to surrender to the invader to help settle the ancestral culture that had turned his back

It was Cortes himself who entrusted this work "and promised more freedom if he was really between him and those of his land, since he understood, and he wanted his faraute and secretary ", As he instructed to remember Francisco Lopez de Gomara, chaplain of Cortes. "She was the language and love of Cortez and the quiet strength he knew inspire courage when all were missing and help in the toughest actions of the conquest", He glossed the figure the now deceased José Luis Martínez, who he was president of the Mexican Academy of Language, the same that, although some forget, It is also heritage of Cortez. To make matters worse, a direct witness of the facts as Rodriguez de Ocaña He did not hesitate to point (reminds Hugh Thomas) that, "After God", the conquest was due to Dona Marina.

La Malinche warned the conqueror of the cholultecas celada prepared against the Spaniards, promoting a bloodbath, the massacre of Cholula, which it is one of the main stigmas with loading the memory of Hernán Cortés. Not far from there, in Tlaxcala, a volcano takes, still, the name of the Malinche.

He warned the conqueror of the cholultecas celada prepared against the Spaniards, promoting a bloodbath

Although Cortes gave indigenous to Alonso Hernandez Portocarrero, first mayor Veracruz, as soon as it was sent to Spain, in July 1519, They became lovers. Their relationship only lasted three years, but it was so close that the Indians knew the conqueror as Malintzine (master of Dona Marina).

When the wife of Cortez, Catalina Juarez, He had come to Mexico to join her husband, Marina gave birth to a son, Martin, the eldest son of the conqueror, who took charge of their education and who managed to legitimize thanks to a bull Clemente VII. In his will, however, Cortes appointed heir to another Martin, the son he had with his second wife, Juana de Zúñiga. Yes, He left a pension 1.000 gold ducats a year.

Marina gave birth to the eldest son of the conqueror, Martin, legitimated by a bull of Clement VII

In his wild expedition Honduras, Cortes decided to marry the Malinche 1524, two years after their breakup, with one of his men, Juan Jaramillo, according slips wickedly Gómara was "drunk". Doña Marina, with whom he had a daughter, Mary, He ended up being mayor consort of Mexico but died young a few years later, at the end of the decade.

The first oblivion suffered by Malinche is the Cortés himself, that not even named in his letters to Carlos V. Only in the second, dated 30 October 1520, He mentioned as "the language that I have, which it is an Indian of this land that I had in Potonchan " (Tabasco). No more.
In a country whose history is rich in betrayals, Malinche remains the paradigm of the mother of all betrayals: the delivery of Hernán Cortés, the invading leader who, paradoxically, He lit the crossbreeding of Mexico today. To the extent that the "malinchista" adjective moteja those who turn their backs on their homeland to defend foreign interests. Five centuries later, fate has again united the two lovers. The Malinche, as Cortes, still awaits redemption.