Don’t call us traitors: descendants of Cortés’s allies defend role in toppling Aztec empire
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On the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest, people from Mexico’s smallest state Tlaxcala say their ancestors were liberators – Dancers celebrate the anniversary of the founding of Tenochtitlán, the Mexica capital, on 26 July. Photograph: Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/Pacific Press/REX/Shutterstock – David Agren …