Malinche is a historical figure and a crucial emblem of Mexican identity. Historically, feminine figures rarely occupied such a prominent place in the construction of national identities. Malinche, the young Indigenous girl who served Cortés as an interpreter and a concubine in the first years of the Conquest, still carries today in the eyes of the Mexican population the scars of the post-Independence period. While she was praised during the Colonial period and considered the mother of the Mexican nation, she was accused of Mexico’s misfortunes from the period of Independence on. More recently, scholars have seriously questioned those two approaches by setting Malinche back in her original context, in order to reinterpret her in a more contemporary fashion. Hence, throughout history, Malinche will wear different masks, always in agreement with the political agenda of the leading authority.