Don't call us traitors: descendants of Cortés’s allies defend role in toppling Aztec empire [theguardian.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 8/30/218:30 AM

By David Agren, The Guardian, August 13, 2021

When people from the Mexican state of Tlaxcala travel to other parts of the country, they are sometimes insulted as traitors by their compatriots.

Tlaxcala is Mexico’s smallest state in size, but it played an outsized role in Mexico’s early history, not least when indigenous Tlaxcalans allied with Hernán Cortés’ tiny band of invaders to bring down the Aztec empire.

Now, as Mexico marks the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán on Friday, the role of the Tlaxcalans in the conquest is being reconsidered.

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