Episode 532: La Llorona - The Legend of the Weeping Woman
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The Controversial Woman Who Helped Cortez Destroy the Aztec Empire
La Malince was an enslaved Aztec noble who'd been captured and enslaved by the Mayans at the age of eight or nine. When Cortez arrived from Spain many years later La Malince was fluent in the languages of both the Aztec and Mayan empires. She thereafter quickly learned Spanish As an interpreter and eventually an advisor la malince Participated in every major event associated with the spanish conquest of mexico All the way to the fall of tanauch teetlan in 1521.
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