Growing weary of the increasing communist threat in the Western Hemisphere, the United States joined Operation Condor, backing a massive campaign of intelligence operations, coups, and political assassinations against communists in South America. The mass atrocities that would soon ensue from Latin America’s military regimes would haunt the continent for decades. While this endeavor did not completely suppress future political turmoil in several South American nations, it definitively eliminated the threat of communism in the Western Hemisphere. Debating the successes, failures, and consequences of America’s presumed diplomacy, it is important to analyze whether the United States was justified in its intervention in South America. Furthermore it is imperative to examine whether the continent would have suffered considerably more under the rule of Communist regimes as opposed to their right-wing counterparts.