Latin America & Caribbean in Review

This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Latin America and the Caribbean during the month of September.

An Aymara Indigenous woman and her son watch wild vicuña herded into a temporary corral to shear their wool inside the Apolobamba protected area near Puyo Puyo village in Bolivia,, Sept. 26, 2021. Once over-hunted and on the brink of extinction, vicuñas are protected in Bolivia, where Aymara Indigenous shear the hair to make clothing, and release the animals. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Books written in the Quechua Indigenous language sit behind a student during a class on medicinal plants, at a public primary school in Licapa, Peru, Sept. 1, 2021. Quechua speakers are expecting that Peru’s new government, led by a rural schoolteacher from an Indigenous region, will give their language more visibility and increase funding for bilingual education in villages where children are often reluctant to speak the ancient tongue. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A couple turns on music in their car during a motorcycle stunt exhibition in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sept. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A protester wears an anti-Nazi symbol during protests on the anniversary of the 1973 military coup and the death of President Salvador Allende in Santiago, Chile, Sept. 11, 2021. The coup began the Pinochet dictatorship. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Horseback riders attend a rodeo, a centerpiece of the country's Independence Day celebrations, at an arena empty of spectators due to COVID-19 restrictions in Melipilla, Sept. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Workers lift dough to make bread at the Bongu bakery in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A woman holds the Spanish message: "Sex education to decide, contraceptives to avoid abortion," on the Global Day of Action for access to legal, safe and free abortion, outside the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Vendors shred cabbage in the Croix des Bosalles market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 13, 2021. The city's main food market extends from the port to parliament, where enslaved people were sold before Haiti’s independence. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Colombia's goalkeeper David Ospina blocks an attack by Chile's Erick Pulgar during a FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifyer soccer match in Barranquilla, Colombia, Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A demonstrator touches a burnt leaf over a mock coffin filled with charcoal, representing the death by fire of the Amazon, at a Fridays for Future global climate strike demonstration in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 24, 2021. Activists staged rallies across the country to demand more action on climate change, a message aimed at world leaders attending this year's U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Migrants, mostly Haitians, continue their trek north, near Acandi, Colombia, Sept. 15, 2021. The migrants are on their way to crossing the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama, ton their way to the U.S. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A person in costume strikes a pose during a diversity parade in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sept. 24, 2021. The annual event aims to raise awareness and fight discrimination based on sexual identity and orientation. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, Sept. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

An Indigenous woman cries after judges suspended the vote on demarcating Indigenous lands, outside the Supreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Migrants heading north to the U.S. rest along the Huehuetan highway in Chiapas state, Mexico, Sept. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A couple dances tango at a milonga venue in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A drought affects the Paraguay River, where people fish on the exposed riverbed in Villeta, Paraguay, Sept. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Luciana Benetti embraces her pet pig Chanchi at home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 4, 2021. Benetti found her plans for a big traditional 15th birthday party scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year. In its place, her parents gave her a pig, which turned out to be a loyal and loving companion. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Children watch a movie set “up by the Cinema on the hill project at a cultural center in the Vila Cruzeiro favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

An America soccer fan holding beer cheers before a Mexican Soccer League match against Guadalajara near Azteca stadium in Mexico City, Sept. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Migrants, many from Haiti, play soccer at an improvised refugee camp in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, Sept. 22, 2021, on the border with the U.S. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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Lead photo: A Haitian migrant child holds up her stuffed animal so it doesn't get wet as she is carried on the shoulders of a man wading across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas, to return to Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, as migrants move back and forth across the river, some to get supplies, and others to avoid deportation by U.S. authorities. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Edited by Martin Mejia, AP photojournalist based in Lima, Peru.

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