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16. At the age of 15 left home and told Mrs. Howton that his childhood as not particularly happy and that his temper and father tormented him. It seemed more likely that Subject left home as a result of family dissension. Mrs. Howton feels that he came to know very early around the time he obtained his passport.17. Through as she found in his passport that in 1939 he had to have his birth certificate stamped to verify that it was the same as her 'X'. He crosses something to the effect that his memories are not should his birthdate as 1911, is actually his name.18. Subject carried a three-month visa to the ivy and visited nearly all the parts of Mexico and many of the United States. Subject's mentality appears to have been to acquire more information. He has left the real service. Subject entered the University of Mexico and took some work in Anthropology. Subject simultaneously developed a strong interest in painting and sculpture and over the next five or so xx years, studied under such masters as Rivere and Siqueiros.49. Subject was married in 1950 at the are of twenty years to a young Mexican woman from Leon, GTC., and during the next ten years had at least four children by her. He divorced his wife in about 1960, just prior to his departure for Cuba, but he had not been on good terms with her for several years prior to the divorce. From about 1954 to 1960, subject worked in the Mexican Government Social Service among the Indians in the southern states of Mexico. Subject attributes some of the tension that arose between him and his wife to this employment venture. He commented to Howton that his first wife wanted to live a quiet normal life in Mexico City and was unwilling to share with him the hardships of social work in remote areas of tropical Mexico. During this period Subject gradually developed his own style in painting and began to establish close contacts with Mexican art circles.20. Subject went to Cuba in about 1960 "to join the revolution", apparently as a result of his increasingly leftist political sympathies. He did a relatively large amount of painting and mural work during his four-year residence in Cuba, while at the same time working in the Ministry of Labor and Education. In about 1961 he married a Cuban woman of Chinese origin from Santiago de Cuba and the following year a (girl) child was born to them in Havana. Subject has told Howton that he has had very little contact with his first wife since his divorce and pays no alimony. He added that his family, however, has continued to take an interest in his first wife and the children of his first marriage and has helped to support them financially. During his time in Cuba, Subject developed close friendships with many Cuban revolutionaries, particularly Arnaldo Rodriguez, whose wife worked with Subject in the Ministry of Education at the time when Arnaldo Rodriguez was serving as Minister of Labor.21. Subject returned to Mexico City in 1964 with his new wife and child (now he had naturalized as a Mexican citizen). By this time Subject had become a professional artist but supplemented the rather modest income he acquired from the sale of his painting by teaching art privately and in Mexican public schools. His monthly income during the end early 1966 did not exceed 3.000 pesos.![signature]