suggestions have been made that its content is incompatible with someone (such as valeriano) who had close bonds with the franciscans, and others have suggested that the "huei tlamahuiçoltica" is a unitary work which – despite the considerable objections against such a possibility – de la vega wrote, with the assistance of a collaborator. nevertheless, the general consensus among mexican scholars (ecclesiastical and secular) remains that valeriano is indeed the author of the "nican mopohua".