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At the Chacabucan artistic shows, Hugo sang tangos, including 'Volver' (Return) by Gardel and Le Pera.

This caused a lot of self-ironic laughter when he sang  'que veinte años no es nada' (twenty years is nothing) given our situation of uncertainty in which no one knew how long we’d be imprisoned.

He also sang this tango during a farewell party for a group of comrades who were going to be released. To think of returning was tragicomic. And yet, four decades later, we returned. Of our own free will.

But 40 years is not nothing: it’s a long time. And 'Volver' is much more than a tango. In September 2013, we remembered the fortieth anniversary of the coup and the death of Salvador Allende(1908-1973) Socialist president of Chile from 1970 to 1973. He was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet’s military forces in 1973.. It was then that the journey began.

Names, ironies, places, omissions. After visiting the house where he lived as a prisoner, now filled with the ghosts of the past, like all the other houses there, Pollito Fonseca went to the theatre and sang one of his hits: the Mexican song 'Volver, volver' ('Return, Return') by Fernando Z. Maldonado(1917-1996) Mexican composer known for his songs in ranchera style..

Guitar in hand, Pollito once again sang about returning, literally, 40 years later.

Back then, when he performed on the prison camp stage, he sang it mischievously and a sense of dark humour. This was expressed not only because of the real possibility of returning to the prison, but also by the gestures he made when singing 'Voy camino a la locura y aunque todo me tortura…' ('I’m on the road to madness and still everything tortures me...').

At that point in the song, the entire captive audience would laugh at a verse that was not just funny but also bold: the word 'torture' was accusatory and symbolised our story prior to being taken to Chacabuco.