In 1979, he participated in a meeting of the grandchildren of the International Brigadistas who fought during the Spanish Civil War, thus beginning his stage as a brigadier, with missions in war zones to evacuate children from places of conflict. He traveled to Nicaragua during the Sandinista Revolution, where he taught while "carrying a hanging Kalashnikov." He was part of a "non-existent organization", which did not claim his actions, called "Liberté" where he carried out work to evacuate child slaves and fight against the trafficking of organs. In his trilogy The Memory of Nobody captured these experiences in writing although, not finding a publisher for Spain "because of the names and brands of weapons that appeared there," he had to self-finance its publication.