De la gesta heroica a los “chispazos” de humor. Representaciones de Hernán Cortés en la prensa de la Ciudad de México (1900-1910)

As the conqueror of Mexico, Hernán Cortés has been a controversial figure in Mexican history and the press. We will present an overview of what the Mexico City newspapers pub-lished about him between 1900 and 1910 to answer the following questions: what was written about Cortés? linked? And what were the publications trying to do with it? Through the Framing theory, we will review, segment and study a documentary corpus of newspaper articles to show a process of distension around his figure as a journalistic subject in which, without denying the dis-cussions of the past, although qualifying them, he began to be linked more to anecdotal and some-what trivial issues as a result of a change in the framing by the newspapers that was linked to the Mexican government agenda. © 2023 Historia Contemporánea (UPV/EHU).