 The only male of four siblings, he had "three sisters, María Teresa, Josefina, and Anita".Maduro was raised as a Roman Catholic, although in 2012 it was reported that he was a follower of Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba and previously visited the guru in India in 2005.Racially, Maduro has indicated that he identifies as mestizo ("mixed [race]"), stating that he includes as a part of his "mestizaje" ("racial mixture") admixture from the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Africans.