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‪At the end of the 1980s, the work of the Chacón brigade consisted of formulating a political message, articulated in a single sentence, which was painted on a large roll of paper. This message was revealed in the street and stuck to a wall in just few minutes, always in strategic places so that the sentence could be read by as many people as possible. In Chile, this form of political message that is displayed in the streets has since been called ‪ ‪papelógrafo‪ ‪. This article returns to the early years of the brigade and points to the importance of a recently found collection of over 300 photos of the brigade’s activities. Taken by the founder of the Chacón brigade, Danilo Bahamondes, these photos document the walls of Santiago and the messages that were painted and pasted on them between 1989 and 2001. ‪