Threats over UN health motion: Uncle Sam the bully

America, once the land of mom and apple pie, has shamefully used its superpower weight against a small Central American country that had the temerity to consider proposing, to the UN’s World Health Assembly, that breastfeeding be encouraged.

In its latest abandonment of civilised principles, America bullied Ecuador to the point of threatening to withdraw aid and to impose trade sanctions, to get its way.