Chilean President Michelle Bachelet returned on Saturday to the secret detention center where she was imprisoned and tortured more than 30 years ago under the Pinochet regime.

• Michele Bachelet: “We were lucky enough to survive. Many others were not so lucky. Because thousands of Chileans, among them my father and many loved ones, did not survive prison or the torture.”

Michelle Bachelet’s trip marked the first presidential visit to Villa Grimaldi, one of the country’s most infamous secret prisons. In September, Chile’s Supreme Court cleared the way for Augusto Pinochet to face possible charges of murder, torture and rights abuses at Villa Grimaldi.