Carola

He thinks that his early paintings were lost when he moved, or that someone left them out in the rain, or that they were stolen, according to Beto’s younger sister, Carola de la Rocha.

Carola says she and her brothers were first-generation Latinos who spoke Spanish fluently but felt that the term Chicano didn’t belong to them.

“Which was odd, because we grew up Jewish,” Carola says.

He took up a fanatical and literal interpretation of the Bible, says Carola.

Already a thin man, Beto became emaciated and dropped to about 75 pounds, Carola says.