The book Malintzin's Choices by Camilla Townsend (2006) takes up that position by looking at her in the context of her choices and argues that in many cases she really didn't have much of a choice. Even when she did choose to assist the spaniards it wasn't as if she was capable of actively betraying the Mexican people because the idea of Mexico, let alone a Mexican peoples, did not yet exist. She wasn't even betraying the native peoples because she was essentially a slave. And it wasn't as if Cortez's band simply swept through Tenochtitlán, the tribes that flocked to his banner to gain an upper hand against the city should be held just as accountable as Cortez's translator.