This is the Mexica ruler at the height of his power, a god among gods.

ECONOMIST: A triumphant decoding of an elusive potentate

But it quickly sets its protagonist in the context of the empire of the Mexica (as the Aztecs are properly called), of which he was the ninth and most powerful ruler from 1502 to 1520.

ECONOMIST: A triumphant decoding of an elusive potentate