President Trump's views on climate change were denounced by several Latin American leaders in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday at the COP30 UN summit.

The big picture: Without naming Trump, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said "extremist forces that fabricate fake news and are condemning future generations to life on a planet altered forever by global warming." Chile and Colombia's leaders both specifically singled out the U.S. president in their COP30 speeches.

What they're saying: Colombian President Gustavo Petro noted that Trump and high-level U.S. representatives were missing from COP30 as it got underway on Thursday, according to a Global News translation. • "Mr. Trump is against humanity. His absence here demonstrates that," said Petro, whose country was hit with U.S. sa

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