Order of Victory
Her recognitions include the Order of Civil Merit from the government of Spain in 2003, and the Emilia Ortiz Medal from the state of Nayarit in 2008. In 2010, Colombia's Ministry of Culture awarded her the Medal of Cultural Merit. In 2011 she received the Bernardo O'Higgins Order from the government of Chile, and in 2017 she was awarded the Order of Victory of the Republic by Mexico's Defence Ministry, the Academia Nacional and the Academia Nacional de Historia y Geografía.