How to pronounce“mestizos”in English

She was a multilingual Indigenous woman who, after being enslaved and handed over to the Spanish as a teenager, interpreted for Hernán Cortés during his conquest of Tenochtitlán in 1521.She and Cortés also had a son, who’s seen as one of the first mestizos — meaning, people of mixed Indigenous and Spanish ancestry, which describes most of Mexico’spopulation today. Paz writes that Malinche is often remembered as a traitor who “gave herself voluntarily to the conquistador,” and that “the Mexican people have not forgiven La Malinche for her betrayal.”