09 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, La Malinche, Mexico’s Eve, with Footnotes. #188

Marina or Malintzin (c. 1500 — c. 1529), or more popularly known as La Malinche Malinche. She has been known as the mother of Mexico, and even Mexico’s Eve (the son she had with Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés was likely the first mestizo person, of European and indigenous Amerindian heritage), yet her name is also associated with betrayal…

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