The highlights this week: Countries flaunt new climate strategies at COP30 in Belém, the U.S. Navy’s largest aircraft carrier enters the region, and Chilean presidential candidates get creative with their campaign strategies ahead of Sunday’s vote.

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief, coming to you from the United Nations climate conference in Belém, Brazil.

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief, coming to you from the United Nations climate conference in Belém, Brazil.

The highlights this week: Countries flaunt new climate strategies at COP30 in Belém, the U.S. Navy’s largest aircraft carrier enters the region, and Chilean presidential candidates get creative with their campaign strategies ahead of Sunday’s vote.

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A Latin American Home Game

U.N. climate summits sometimes take place in convention centers that project placeless modernity. At this year’s edition in Belém, Brazil—known as COP30—there is no doubt that we are at the edge of the Amazon rainforest: Rain leaks through the roof each afternoon, Indigenous leaders who sailed here on boats roam the halls, and the menus include fish stewed in local fruits and peppers.

Latin America has hosted the annual U.N. climate conference before, most recently in Peru in 2014, but the region’s climate policies have vastly evolved since then.

Though the region has many cli