The Sars-Cov 2 pandemic made governments rethink the forms of communication. Discursive strategies regarding the use of media and forms of communication focused on understanding the pandemic and communicating the risk. This article analyzes the cases of twelve Latin American countries regarding the Executive's ability to adapt to risk communication, as the main tool for modifying habits and behaviors to prevent risk, as well as the potential use they gave to the social networks to establish immediate and real-time contact with its citizens. For this purpose, the study is theoretically based on the studies of risk communication, Agenda Setting, Framing and social networks. The investigation took the official Facebook accounts of the Presidency, Ministries / organizations in charge of public health and presidential personal accounts to analyze the content of the publications, from the firs...