Today on Museum Bites we’re taking a closer look at La Malinche (mah-LEEN-cheh), the mother of modern Mexico. A controversial figure with a complicated past, artists and historians have grappled with her portrayal. Is she the mother of a new nation? A traitor to her people? Or a survivor of the violent world in which she lived? Mexican painter, Jorge González Camarena’s La Pareja (1964) is one interpretation. Join me as we take a tour of this powerful portrait, but first a little background…