# Latin American Nations Join Those Rejecting Climate Ideology
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Publisher: Principia Scientific, Intl. | A science-based news and community site. · published 2026-09-07 · read 2026-09-10

Original: https://principia-scientific.com/latin-american-nations-join-those-rejecting-climate-ideology/

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## Who is named (19)

- [Longtail project](https://truthscore.com/entity/08836145)
- [Chapter 11 of IPCC Sixth Assessment Report](https://truthscore.com/entity/1262fa60)
- [IPCC](https://truthscore.com/entity/12a84f36)
- [Petrobras](https://truthscore.com/entity/1645a2f7)
- [Burgos basin](https://truthscore.com/entity/2471f87a)
- [Ecopetrol](https://truthscore.com/entity/5203ba7d)
- [Vaca Muerta](https://truthscore.com/entity/64ea2073)
- [Abelardo de la Espriella](https://truthscore.com/entity/70ad8be2)
- [Javier Milei](https://truthscore.com/entity/77fa8e92)
- [ExxonMobil](https://truthscore.com/entity/86cb4d08)
- [Colombia](https://truthscore.com/entity/8bc8d5b7)
- [Sabinas-Burro-Picachos basin](https://truthscore.com/entity/95310a35)
- [Punta Colorada](https://truthscore.com/entity/9e5912c7)
- [Gustavo Petro](https://truthscore.com/entity/a8fd5331)
- [Occidental Petroleum](https://truthscore.com/entity/ab396d10)
- [Mexico](https://truthscore.com/entity/b987c8ad)
- [Equatorial Margin](https://truthscore.com/entity/ce84fcd6)
- [Bogotá](https://truthscore.com/entity/d5a019f9)
- [CrownRock](https://truthscore.com/entity/e696e0ea)

## What it added

- [Colombia spent four years under leftist leadership apologizing for its energy resources.](https://truthscore.com/claim/49f83ced)
  > Colombia spent four years under leftist leadership apologizing for its energy resources.
- [Energy security sits at the center of national sovereignty.](https://truthscore.com/claim/25a30919)
  > The penance ended when newly elected President Abelardo de la Espriella told his countrymen that energy security sits at the center of national sovereignty
- [He pledged to revive oil and gas exploration, rebuild Ecopetrol, and authorize hydraulic fracturing under strict technical and environmental standards.](https://truthscore.com/claim/61cd7f90)
  > He pledged to revive oil and gas exploration, rebuild state-owned petroleum company Ecopetrol, and authorize hydraulic fracturing under strict technical and environmental standards.
- [Colombia will pursue an energy transition, but not from a position of dependence.](https://truthscore.com/claim/2b288e06)
  > De la Espriella’s inauguration address in Cali laid out a clear strategy: Colombia will pursue an energy transition, but not from a position of dependence.
- [Any transition must be “built from strength, not from weakness”.](https://truthscore.com/claim/387e2cd2)
  > Any transition, he said, must be “built from strength, not from weakness”.
- [The strategy rules out policies embracing solar and wind energy at the expense of affordability, reliability, and flexibility.](https://truthscore.com/claim/561f3a2f)
  > That rules out policies embracing solar and wind energy at the expense of affordability, reliability, and flexibility.
- [The new president will face a poor economy inherited from former President Gustavo Petro.](https://truthscore.com/claim/ac3f6bbd)
  > But the new president will face a poor economy inherited from former President Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla leader.
- [Petro banned new exploration contracts.](https://truthscore.com/claim/49a2f0dd)
  > Elected on a promise to lead the world out of hydrocarbons, Petro banned new exploration contracts.
- [Survival is only possible if we separate ourselves from oil, coal, and natural gas.](https://truthscore.com/claim/4997bc0d)
  > At the COP30 climate summit in Belém, he informed the planet that survival is “only possible if we separate ourselves from oil, coal, and natural gas.”
- [Colombia’s energy industry was decimated.](https://truthscore.com/claim/bb450ea0)
  > The fruit of that sermon was the decimation of Colombia’s energy industry.
- [Petro killed a Permian Basin joint venture with Occidental Petroleum and blocked a $3.6 billion purchase of a 30 percent stake in CrownRock.](https://truthscore.com/claim/8267501b)
  > Petro killed a Permian Basin joint venture with Occidental Petroleum and blocked a $3.6 billion purchase of a 30 percent stake in CrownRock.
- [Senior directors of Ecopetrol resigned in protest.](https://truthscore.com/claim/34921456)
  > Senior directors of Ecopetrol resigned in protest.
- [Foreign direct investment in Colombian mining and oil dropped 34 percent to $6.9 billion between 2023 and 2025.](https://truthscore.com/claim/50c4cd4f)
  > Industry figures show foreign direct investment in Colombian mining and oil dropped 34 percent to $6.9 billion between 2023 and 2025.
- [Average crude output reduced four percent and crude reserves shrank by 54 million barrels.](https://truthscore.com/claim/2ad566dd)
  > Average crude output reduced four percent and crude reserves shrank by 54 million barrels.
- [Natural gas imports climbed from three percent of domestic consumption in 2023 to 31 percent by 2025.](https://truthscore.com/claim/8285b0d3)
  > Natural gas imports climbed from three percent of domestic consumption in 2023 to 31 percent by 2025.
- [Colombia now imports nearly a third of its gas after supplying its own gas for 45 years.](https://truthscore.com/claim/190c65da)
  > A nation that supplied its own gas for 45 years now imports nearly a third of it.
- [Bogotá transitioned away from Colombian fossil fuels and toward somebody else’s tankers.](https://truthscore.com/claim/e4c05d9e)
  > Bogotá then transitioned away from Colombian ‘fossil fuels’ and toward somebody else’s tankers.
- [De la Espriella inherits an electric grid dependent on hydropower during a drought.](https://truthscore.com/claim/da253e2d)
  > De la Espriella also inherits an electric grid dependent on hydropower during a drought.
- [Dependence on imported energy was branded as virtue and sold to voters as moral progress in controlling the climate, and claims of a climate crisis do not…](https://truthscore.com/claim/73a664c4)
  > Dependence on imported energy was branded as virtue and sold to voters as moral progress in controlling the climate – a physical impossibility, and claims of a climate crisis do not withstand scientific scrutiny.
- [Satellite records show a measurably greener planet, and global harvests keep breaking records rather than collapsing.](https://truthscore.com/claim/b1c5ca59)
  > Satellite records show a measurably greener planet, and global harvests keep breaking records rather than collapsing.
- [The IPCC are more careful than its hyperbolic publicists.](https://truthscore.com/claim/628ffb15)
  > Even the IPCC are more careful than its hyperbolic publicists.
- [Chapter 11 of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report declines to detect or attribute human‑caused trends across many categories of severe weather.](https://truthscore.com/claim/eaa4f36d)
  > Chapter 11 of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report declines to detect or attribute human-caused trends across many categories of severe weather.
- [Deaths from natural disasters have fallen by more than 90 percent over the past century as global population quadrupled.](https://truthscore.com/claim/340b504d)
  > Deaths from natural disasters have fallen by more than 90 percent over the past century as global population quadrupled.
- [Javier Milei has publicly derided the Paris Agreement as a fraud and weighed pulling his country out entirely.](https://truthscore.com/claim/d2fcad2f)
  > In Argentina, President Javier Milei has publicly derided the Paris Agreement as a fraud and weighed pulling his country out entirely.
- [Milei’s government backs a $30 billion expansion in oil and natural gas development in Vaca Muerta.](https://truthscore.com/claim/b90fb328)
  > His government backs a $30 billion expansion in oil and natural gas development in Vaca Muerta.
- [Floating liquefaction units are projected to produce annually 12 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas for export.](https://truthscore.com/claim/6568ccff)
  > Floating liquefaction units are projected to produce annually 12 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas for export.
- [The pipeline to Punta Colorada will deliver its first crude exports this December, reaching 390,000 barrels a day by mid‑2027.](https://truthscore.com/claim/d48c1610)
  > A 437-kilometer pipeline to Punta Colorada will deliver its first crude exports this December, reaching 390,000 barrels a day by mid-2027.
- [Petrobras is committing $2.5 billion and 15 wells to the Equatorial Margin by 2030.](https://truthscore.com/claim/a2773422)
  > Brazil is similar, with Petrobras committing $2.5 billion and 15 wells to the Equatorial Margin by 2030.
- [The frontier is believed to hold more than 30 billion barrels of crude.](https://truthscore.com/claim/ad60f2c7)
  > The frontier is believed to hold more than 30 billion barrels of crude.
- [ExxonMobil produces more than 900,000 barrels a day and expects a final investment decision on the $12.5 billion Longtail project by next year.](https://truthscore.com/claim/a2255b6b)
  > In Guyana, ExxonMobil produces more than 900,000 barrels a day and expects a final investment decision on the $12.5 billion Longtail project by next year.
- [Mexico has authorized further study of low‑impact hydrofracturing in the Sabinas‑Burro‑Picachos and Burgos basins.](https://truthscore.com/claim/2e7203b8)
  > Meanwhile, still importing 75 percent of its gas through American pipelines, Mexico has authorized further study of low-impact hydrofracturing in the Sabinas-Burro-Picachos and Burgos basins.
- [These Latin American governments have stopped confusing an “environmental” fad with physics.](https://truthscore.com/claim/860d5c55)
  > These Latin American governments have stopped confusing an “environmental” fad with physics.
- [The region possesses abundant energy resources capable of supporting economic growth for decades while continuing to improve environmental performance through…](https://truthscore.com/claim/97693e5f)
  > The region possesses abundant energy resources capable of supporting economic growth for decades while continuing to improve environmental performance through better technology and stronger operational standards.
- [A global coalition of nonprofits, international bodies, and financial institutions stigmatized fossil fuel projects regardless of their environmental…](https://truthscore.com/claim/8f90270d)
  > For two decades, a global coalition of nonprofits, international bodies, and financial institutions stigmatized fossil fuel projects regardless of their environmental safeguards or economic necessity.
- [The ‘green’ shackle is finally breaking as nations choose prosperity and sovereign security over hollow promises of climate collectivists.](https://truthscore.com/claim/20773319)
  > That ‘green’ shackle is finally breaking as nations choose prosperity and sovereign security over hollow promises of climate collectivists.

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