From Carrie C. Chorba, Mexico, From Mestizo to Multicultural: National Identity and Recent Representations of the Conquest (Nashville: Vanderbilt, University Press, 2007)

Lopez Mateos' textbooks aimed to produce nationalism in young children: the books were intended to accentuate “the feeling of duty toward the motherland, of which they [students] will one day become citizens.”

There was some doubt about the revival of this image. In 1992, one reporter described Victoria Dorenlas as “a dark young woman who is well-nourished, possibly a model for a men’s magazine, unsuccessfully attempting to identify herself as indigenous. She wears a Roman tunic and she is pushed toward her destiny by an eagle with open wings and an abundance of fruits and symbols of a cornucopia that has not been used as a metaphor for Mexico for decades.” Chorba adds that “the use of this confusing, ambiguous image aptly symbolizes the state’s ambivalence toward its own messages of racial identity….The patria is envisioned as indigenous and draped in Western grab of classical provenance."