Diego Muñoz Camargo (c. 1529 – 1599) was the author of History of Tlaxcala, an illustrated codex that highlights the religious, cultural, and military history of the Tlaxcalan people.
He acted as official interpreter for the Spanish,[1] particularly the Franciscans.
He was also a chronicler of some note, belonging to a group of mestizo chroniclers with Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl and Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc.
Muñoz Camargo was a businessman who entered into lucrative cross-cultural enterprises.
Besides business, he acted as a tutor for the Seminole peoples Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca brought to Mexico with him, he took urban Tlaxcalan peoples north to Chichimec country ostensibly to 'civilize' them, and he took a keen interest in the Spanish chronicles being composed which he inserted into a historical frame with Tlaxcalan tlacuilo manuscripts.