He returned to Chile to continue working as a translator and journalist. Chilean President Salvador Allende put Gutiérrez in charge of Editora Nacional Quimantú, a publisher that focused on literature for the working class in that country.El Poder de la Palabra: Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel, accessed 17 April 2014 http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=1794 In 1972, when Augusto Pinochet deposed and began a military dictatorship, Gutiérrez returned to Costa Rica.
