The study of Latin American right-wing politics during this period continues to receive less attention, much to the detriment of the need to paint fuller pictures of Latin America’s Cold War experience. Besides addressing this deficit, the papers featured in this panel contribute to broadening the discussion of “the international,” “the global,” and “the transnational” in Latin Americanist Cold War scholarship. From the Argentine military concern’s for Catholic subversion (Johnson); the actions of hardline right-wing Cuban exiles in Puerto Rico (Chase); the historical narrative of the Chilean military junta and their outlook on the late Cold War (Avery); to the conflictive “grassroots diplomacy” of Mexican anticommunists (Herrán Ávila), these papers intervene in an important and necessary conversation about the impact and traction of anticommunism and conservatism in the region’s history. Altogether, the papers showcase the broad range of actors involved in imagining and enacting forms of repressive or counterrevolutionary violence, justified by ideas of “the enemy” that were both broad enough (e.g. “international communism”) to be linked to reigning Cold War anxieties, and specific enough (leftist Catholic priests, Puerto Rican political activists, “moderate” right-wingers) to justify the branding and targeting of concrete individuals and organizations as traitors, accomplices, criminals, terrorists, or overall threats to the nation. They also highlight the need for new and more expansive analyses of Cold War right wing politics at the state and grassroots levels, and their intersections with nationalism and internationalism in the realms of ideology, diplomacy, and forms of political action animated by notions of a war, struggle, or even “resistance” against communism. Lastly, the papers offer a wide geographical span, dealing not just with nation-bounded actors (e.g. the Chilean and Argentine military) but also with the transnational “spill-over” effect that anticommunist crusades entailed throughout the Southern Cone, North and Central America, the Caribbean, and beyond.