The former Chilean ambassador to the United Nations has revealed new details on how the Bush administration pressured its allies to support the 2003 invasion of Iraq. According to Heraldo Munoz, the United States threatened trade reprisals against friendly countries who withheld their support, spied on its allies and pressed for the recall of UN envoys that resisted US pressure to endorse the war. Munoz says the diplomatic strategy has generated lasting “bitterness” and “deep mistrust” in Washington’s relations with allies in Latin America and Europe. Munoz says Bush personally prodded the leaders of six nations in the UN Security Council: Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea, Mexico and Pakistan. When Chile tried to broker a compromise to delay military action, then-US Ambassador John Negroponte and then-Secretary of State Colin Powell moved quickly to quash the initiative.