COP30 arrives laden with new climate-finance promises, yet trapped in the same failed visions that have prevented us from confronting a crisis advancing faster than global political will.

At first glance, Sunday's results appear to signal a Copernican shift in the country's values, indicating—according to all polls based on plausible second-round scenarios—a potential return of the right to power. This conclusion, however, may be misleading. In my opinion, what happened is that a significant number of Chileans abandoned the left, and faced with the implosion of the political center, found no other space available than the right. People did not become “right-wing”; rather, they moved away from the left, at least for now. While there is a conservative shift on issues of order and security, the evidence does not show a structural shift to the right in broader values; what prevails is a reaction to political performance rather than a profound ideological shift. These elections should be read more as a failure of the left than as a triumph of the right. This raises the inevitable question: where did...

The accelerated authoritarian drift of the United States under the Trump administration poses serious risks to democracy and stability throughout Latin America.