Episode 5: Fusion of Cultures

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Mexican people today still grapple with the fusion of cultures that resulted from the Spanish Conquest. While the storied romance between Cortez and Malinche, the Aztec woman who served as the Spanish General's translator and lover, remains controversial, many Mexican artists have explored the violent and emotional interpenetration of the Europeans and indigenous in vivid ways. https://www.artesmexut.org/part5