In 1965, the Civil Guard found him after eleven years living in complete isolation from human beings and with the sole company of the wolves.
The police never brought charges against the father, who was still alive at the time, and when he recognized his son, he only reproached him for having lost his jacket.
Nuns employed at a nearby hospital along with a priest taught him, again, the use of speech, how to dress, walk upright, and eat with cutlery.
[5] Currently, Marcos is sponsored by a Dutch family, being frequently invited by city councils, associations and diverse organizations to give talks and narrate his experience.
The anthropologist stated that the causes of Marcos' abandonment were not fortuitous, but deliberate and the result of a socio-economic context of extreme poverty.
The researcher also stressed that Marcos' survival was possible thanks to the basic skills acquired in the previous phase of his abandonment, as well as his extraordinary natural intelligence.
Once he was again immersed in a social environment, after his "rescue" by the Civil Guard, he made a slow readaptation to human customs (food, clothing, language, etc.