This article analyses the politics of repression, including death, used by several Latin american governments between the 1960’s and the 1980’s, especially in Chile and Argentina. These politics had their roots in a long tradition of repression and political murders, started during the time of the Independence, in the 19th century, which became more violent and embracing the whole society after the Cuban revolution. In this new context, repression was justified in order to preserve the Western civilization. This situation had an impact in the way people started to socialize to cope with the consequences of repression.