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U.S. threatened Ecuador over support for resolution encouraging breastfeeding, report says

Gondwanaland said:
Suspiciously one-sided article based on unnamed sources. And I've googled around for different sources, but all of them seem to only cite the NYT article or be reprints of it.
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Must be fake then.
 
If you go straight to the horse's mouth and bypass NYT, you will find details of the resolution from the January report on the WHO website. You may note (starting in Action 4) that Ecuador was one of the instigators of this study, and that it asks for "cash transfers" as part of its plan.

http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB142/B142_22-en.pdf?ua=1

If you will note here, in the May resolution, that it was unanimously passed. That means the U.S. voted for it (I assume after it was amended somehow).

Seventy-first World Health Assembly update, 26 May

So, I prefer direct information from WHO and leave the NYT unnamed sources out on the curb on trash day.



And a note: The "cash transfers" relate to intergovernmental earmarks, not necessarily from WHO. But there are references in the report regarding WHO funding for target nations.

There is no financial breakdown that I could find on the website. So since NYT speculated on the event, I feel that I can also after reading this. And that speculation is the U.S. delegation did not like the way the money was to be spent. The U.S. is the biggest single financial contributor to WHO (at 15%) so it isn't surprising that it wants extra consideration sometimes in how the money is spent.

As far as "threats" to Ecuador, this is all in the wording. If Ecuador is proposing spending U.S. $ on its country against U.S. wishes, then it is hardly a "threat" if the U.S. said it will remove U.S. $ currently being sent to Ecuador for other purposes.

NYT loaded language, unnamed sources, anti-U.S. speculation, and errors (never mentions that the U.S. voted for the resolution). Huge FAIL.
 
Grand Mal said:
Must be fake then.
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Yes, it appears to be, at best, extremely misleading and leaving out of important relevant information to paint the US in a bad light.
 
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