What year were the textbooks published? I ask because it is only during the past few years that serious investigations and publicity of the U.S. participation came about. That includes the role of the School of the Americas in many latin american events. Both are included in recent latin american history study programs though and the professors lecture on it. American's participation in situations around the world is typically covered more in the history courses for those areas.


>>>>>Better read about Operation Condor for more details. I don't expect U.S. citizens to be well-informed about Operation Condor - my son just finished studying "Comprehensive U.S. History" and they didn't mention it with one word.
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>>>>Good thing that it didn't.
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>>>I don't understand why that should be a good thing. That would be as if a "Comprehensive history of Germany" forgot to mention the Holocaust. Not that the crimes involved were of the same magnitude, I should quickly add, before someone thinks the comparison is ridiculous.
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>>Too late. It is happened after, not before.
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>Let me add - once again, for the sake of completeness - that the "Comprehensive U.S. History" DID mention, more or less objectively, some other stuff where the role of the U.S. or of its government was not exactly ideal.
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>But I do find the omission of the "Operation Condor", or of the "School of the Americas" which wasn't mentioned either, important omissions.
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>I think you said before that you couldn't figure out on what side I was, or something of the sort. Well, I try not to be on any particular side; human rights violations are horrible, no matter who commits them.