Latin America and Caribbean

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, left, returns a ball to Norway's Casper Rudd as they visit the Quito metro station during their Latin American tour, in Ecuador, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022.(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Nov. 25-Dec. 1, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A girl looks into the open casket of Yadimar Sierra, 11, during her wake inside her home in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. A week earlier, Yadimar was fatally hit by a stray bullet while she was sleeping in her home, according to her family. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

A supporter of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro shouts out from the folds of a national flag during a protest against the results of the presidential runoff election, which Bolsonaro lost, outside a military base on Republic Proclamation Day, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Police officers in an armored vehicle patrol the Varreux fuel terminal in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Nov. 7, 2022. Authorities seemed to have gained control of the key fuel terminal a day after a powerful gang leader announced that he was lifting a blockade that has strangled Haiti's capital for nearly two months. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haitian police briefly lose control of armored car

Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wipes tears as he speaks about his government's proposals for the poor during a meeting with lawmakers and community leaders at his transitional government headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. Da Silva will be sworn-in on Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva kisses his ticket after voting in a run-off presidential election in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, da Silva, universally known as Lula, defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in an extremely tight election. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Oct. 28-Nov. 3, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, center, takes a photo with a supporter as he campaigns for reelection at the rural workers' settlement Nova Jerusalem, or New Jerusalem, in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Bolsonaro is running in the presidential runoff set for Oct. 30. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Oct. 21-27, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Children run past a goal post used to hang clothes at the Hugo Chavez public square transformed into a refuge for families forced to leave their homes due to clashes between armed gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Oct. 14-20, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Yohandry Colina uses an oil-stained sheet for a sail on the boat he uses to put fish he catches in Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Oct. 7 - 13, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Venezuela, SKorea, Afghanistan lose vote for UN rights body

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Venezuela, South Korea and Afghanistan lost contested races for seats on the top U.N. human rights body in Tuesday by the General Assembly, which faced criticism for electing countries like Vietnam and Sudan, which have been accused of having abysmal human rights records.

A teacher dries out books at a school that was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ian in La Coloma, in the province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Sept. 30 - Oct. 6, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Cart pushers clench their fists threatening to start a fight after their carts accidentally colliding into each other at the Cease wholesale market in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Sept. 23 - 29, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Members of the Afro Brazilian faith, Candomble, dance during a ritual honoring Obaluae, the deity of earth and health, at their temple on the outskirts of Salvador, Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. Today just a small minority practices Afro Brazilian religions, and there have been increased reports of incidents of religious intolerance targeting them, particularly at the hands of members of Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal churches. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Bolsonaro campaign to evangelicals: Brazil’s soul at stake

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been waging an all-out campaign to shore up the crucial evangelical vote ahead of Oct. 2 elections.

Nelson Cirino's home stands with its roof torn off by the winds of Hurricane Fiona in Loiza, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. President Joe Biden said Thursday the full force of the federal government is ready to help Puerto Rico recover from the devastation even as Bermuda and Canada’s Atlantic provinces were preparing for a major blast from the Category 4 storm. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Sept. 16 - 22, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A demonstrator carries a portrait of late former President Salvador Allende during a march to commemorate the anniversary of the coup that toppled President Allende and brought dictator General Augusto Pinochet to power 49 years ago, in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The anniversary comes one week after Chileans overwhelmingly rejected a new constitution to replace its dictatorship-era charter. (AP Photo/Matias Basualdo)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Sept. 9 - 15, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara from the Guajajara ethnic group shows her hands painted in red symbolizing bloodshed, during a protest against violence, illegal logging, mining and ranching, and to demand government protection for their reserves, one day before the celebration of "Amazon Day," in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Sept. 2 - 8, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A youth makes an "L" during a campaign rally to support Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's bid for reelection in Manaus, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Aug. 26 - Sept. 1, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Photos of slain journalists are posted up on a wall during a vigil to protest the murder of journalist Fredid Roman, outside Mexico's Attorney General's office in Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. Roman was the 15th media worker killed so far this year in Mexico, where it is now considered the most dangerous country for reporters outside a war zone. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Aug. 19 - 25, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A child holds a candle during a baptism ceremony inside the chapel of the Kalunga quilombo during the culmination of the week-long pilgrimage and celebration for the patron saint "Nossa Senhora da Abadia" or Our Lady of Abadia, in the rural area of Cavalcante in Goias state, Brazil, late Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Aug. 12 - 18, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

People watch a plume of smoke rise from the Matanzas supertanker base where a deadly fire started during a thunderstorm the night before in Matanzas, Cuba, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. The blaze forced officials to evacuate more than 4,900 people, has killed two firefighters, injured 130 people and destroyed four of the facility's eight tanks. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Aug. 5 - 11, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A coca farmer kicks a tear gas canister back a police on the third day of clashes near a coca market in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. Anti-government coca farmers are protesting against a new, parallel coca leaf market. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

July 28 to Aug. 4, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Jenifer Salles is consoled by a relative during a burial service for her mother, Leticia Marinho Salles, killed during a police raid in the Complexo do Alemao favela, at the Caju cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, July 23, 2022. Thursday's police operation in the Complexo do Alemao favela targeted a criminal group that stole cars and robbed banks, and invaded nearby neighborhoods, leaving at least 18 dead. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

July 21 to July 28, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

People walk in an exhibit simulating sea pollution during the 11th edition of Technopolis science, technology, industry and art exhibit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, July 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

July 14 to July 21, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Relatives and friends grieve before the coffins that contain the remains of migrants Jair Valencia, Misael Olivares, and Yovani Valencia, during a wake in San Marcos Atexquilapan, Veracruz state, Mexico, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. The three were among those who died of heat and dehydration in a locked trailer-truck abandoned by smugglers on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas, on June 27. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

JULY 8-14, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Astrid Cardona kisses her mother Ufemia Tomas, the mother of survivor Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomas, during an interview in Guatemala City, Monday, July 4, 2022. Yenifer is one of the survivors of the more than 50 migrants who were found dead inside a tractor-trailer near San Antonio, Texas. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

JULY 1-7, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

An Indigenous woman sits on a sidewalk in Izucar de Matamoros in the Mexican state of Puebla, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

JUNE 24-30, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Indigenous protesters arrive to Quito to demonstrate in the capital against the economic policies of the government of President Guillermo Lasso, in Quito, Ecuador, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

JUNE 17-23, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A man in a devil costume crawls on his knees toward a church as he pays a penance as part of celebrations of the Catholic holiday of Corpus Christi in La Guaira, Venezuela, Thursday, June 16, 2022. Carrying masks of animals and sea monsters, residents of all ages went out to dance in the ritual known as Dancing Devils that symbolizes the triumph of good over evil. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

June 9 to June 16, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A horse pulls a buggy with passengers through a street flooded by heavy rains, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, June 3, 2022. Heavy rains have drenched Cuba with almost non-stop rain for the last 24 hours as tropical storm watches were posted Thursday for Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas as the system that battered Mexico moves to the east. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

June 2 to June 9, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A man walks past liquor bottles silhouetted against a red cloth during the grand dance of the religious tradition, "Folia do Divino Espirito Santo" or Feast of the Divine, in the rural area of Pirenopolis, state of Goias, Brazil, Saturday, May 28, 2022. The event celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to Jesus' apostles after his crucifixion and has been performed for two centuries since it was first brought to Brazil by Portuguese colonizers. Once there, it was influenced by the cultures of Indigenous people and Black slaves. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

May 27 – June 2, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The shadows of Haitian migrants are cast on a wall as they wait to receive food at a tourist campground in Sierra Morena, in the Villa Clara province of Cuba, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. A vessel carrying more than 800 Haitians trying to reach the United States wound up instead on the coast of central Cuba, government news media said Wednesday. (AP Photo Ramon Espinosa)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

May 20 – 26, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A girl stands in her home in Quilombo Mesquita, a community of descendants from slaves, during its traditional cultural-religious festival "Folia do Divino Espirito Santo", in Cidade Ocidental, 50 km from Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, May 12, 2022. The festival, held for more than 100 years, represents the cultural resistance of the community and the eve of the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

May 12 to May 19, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Protesters arrive at the Plaza de Mayo to demand higher salaries and more jobs, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, May 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

May 5 to May 12, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Women surround San Bernardo Convent in Salta, Argentina, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Feminist groups have rallied to the support of 18 cloistered Carmelite nuns who have filed an unusual complaint of gender violence against the local Catholic archbishop. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

April 29 – May 5, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Fans from Brazil's Corinthians cheer their team prior to a Copa Libertadores soccer match against Argentina's Boca Juniors in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

April 22-28, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean.