This article analyzes social repression as a mechanism of state control devices to counteract the malaise and youthful rebellion in the National University of Colombia (UNAL), Antioquia (UdeA) and Industrial de Santander (UIS), from 1981 to 1991.The hypothesis is based on the theory of devices delineated by Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben in the transition from disciplinary societies to control societies.The analysis used variables such as public violence, private violence and social protest.This article handles a qualitative research methodology, for this, semi-structured interviews were conducted following a narrative model to thirty-five people, who between 1981-1991 were political activists or sympathizers of the left in previously mentioned universities; this information was correlated with the statistics of murders and disappearances of the National