Latin America in review

Latin America in review is a monthly gallery that features some of the top photojournalism made by AP staff photographers and freelancers based in our Latin America region.

In this Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017 photo, masked indigenous women raise their fists to show support for Maria de Jesus Patricio, presidential candidate for the National Indigenous Congress, during a rally in the Zapatista stronghold of Morelia, in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

A figurine of the "Nino de Atoche" is displayed in a stand at a street market in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Argentina's Alejandro Gomez, left, is fouled by Peru's Aldo Corzo during a World Cup qualifying soccer match at La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina's former President Cristina Fernandez speaks at a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 photo, a resident tries to connect electrical lines downed by Hurricane Maria in preparation for when electricity is restored in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Aug. 18, 2017 photo, family members of slain Dr. Jessica Sevilla Pedraza attend a church service, holding a cross for her grave which they brought to be blessed with holy water, in Villa Cuauhtemoc, Mexico state. The daughter of a truck driver and a shop owner, Jessica went to college and became a doctor, cementing her place as the pride of the family. Jessica's mother Juana and sister Ingrid comfort each other as ex-partner Alejandro Colin Garcia holds the cross. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A woman lights a candle near a photo of missing activist Santiago Maldonado at a makeshift memorial outside the morgue in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A boy looks at a butcher's stand at a street market downtown in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A boy wearing a Superman T-shirt stands with a group of grownups watching a ceremony marking the 211th anniversary of the assassination of independence hero Gen. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Oct. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

A girl dressed as Mexico's iconic "Catrina" leans against stone benches as she awaits the start of the Grand Procession of the Catrinas, part of upcoming Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Woman keep their hair dry with plastic bags as it drizzles in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this Sept. 11, 2017 photo, a woman and youth use tall trash containers to shower outside their squatter building that used to house the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in the Mangueira slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The World Bank estimates that between the start of 2016 and the end of this year, 2.5 million to 3.6 million Brazilians will have fallen back below the poverty line of 140 Brazilian reais per month, about $44 at current exchange rates. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

In this Oct. 20, 2017 photo, Simone Batista, holding her baby Arthur, looks into the camera as tears roll down her cheeks while she recounts being cut from the "Bolsa Familia" government subsidy program for low-income people, at her shack home in the Jardim Gramacho slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

In this Sept. 10, 2017 photo, children slide on a puddle near trash as they play in a squatter building that used to house the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in the Mangueira slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

In this Sept. 9, 2017 photo, residents sit in a corridor inside a squatter building that used to house the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in the Mangueira slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Despite the hardscrabble existence, there is a strong sense of community among the hundreds of people occupying the building. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

A model wears a creation from the Ani Alvarez Calderon spring/summer collection during Fashion Week in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Traditional Andean women's skirts hang for sale at vendors' stores set up along the road between El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Voters wait in line to cast their ballots outside a polling station during regional elections in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Uruguay's Edinson Cavani, center, celebrates after scoring against Bolivia during a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match in Montevideo, Uruguay, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Suspected thieves chained together look at police after they were detained in downtown in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Lucas Albertengo, front, of Argentina's Independiente, fights for the ball with Rodrigo Rojo of Paraguay's Nacional during a Copa Sudamericana quarter final soccer game in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

A member of the Puerto Rican National Guard delivers food and water brought via helicopter to victims of Hurricane Maria, to the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Morovis, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto puts on his jacket as his wife Angelica Rivera looks on before welcoming Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau to the National Palace in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In this Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017 photo, Arturo de Jesus Melendez sleeps in his car with a shirt over his eyes, after he couldn't sleep in the school-turned-shelter due to the noise in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates wining his fourth Formula One championship with a member of his team after the Mexican Formula One Grand Prix auto race at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

A bullet hole scars the back window of the car in which a Spanish tourist was shot dead by military police, at a police station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

In this Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017 photo, a monkey walks over the rubble left in the wake of Hurricane Maria on Cayo Santiago, known as Monkey Island, in Puerto Rico, one of the world's most important sites for research into how primates think, socialize and evolve. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Dead fish float in the Confuso river near Villa Hayes, Paraguay, 30 kilometers north of the capital Asuncion, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Rodrigo Diaz Mejia climbs over a crushed car into what was a second-story apartment at 517 Tokio street, felled by the earthquake almost one month ago in the Portales Norte neighborhood of Mexico City, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A mural of late President Hugo Chavez is seen as a man drives a car in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Oct 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

In this Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017 photo, Eduardo Pagan Figueroa points to the wall of his home where floodwaters reached, brought by Hurricane Maria in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017 photo, presidential candidate for the National Indigenous Congress, Maria de Jesus Patricio, is escorted by Zapatistas at her campaign rally in the Zapatista stronghold of Morelia, in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

In this Monday, Oct. 16, 2017 photo, members of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) provide security for a campaign rally by presidential candidate for the National Indigenous Congress, Maria de Jesus Patricio, in the Zapatista stronghold of La Garrucha in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Lawmaker Rodrigo Pacheco, president of the Constitutional and Justice Commission, reacts during a vote on whether or not to suspend Brazilian President Michel Temer from office, at the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017.(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

People walk in a street of the Casco Viejo neighborhood in Panama City, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

People who lost access to water in the wake of Hurricane Maria gather at pipes carrying water from a mountain creek, on the side of the road in Utuado, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Colombia's James Rodriguez, front, celebrates after scoring against Peru as teammate Juan Cuadrado jumps behind him during a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, of Britain, celebrates at the end of the Formula One Mexico Grand Prix auto race at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Ducks perch on the branch of a tree next to a home destroyed by Hurricane Maria in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Chile's Mauricio Isla, center, fights to head the ball against Ecuador's Joao Plata Cotera, right, during a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

A gas pump set on fire by protesters goes up in flames during a protest against government tax hikes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Fans cheers for Argentina during a World Cup qualifying soccer match against Peru at La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Children play in an inflatable swimming pool in the working class 23 de Enero neighborhood as it rains lightly in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Brazil's Dani Alves heads a ball to teammates during a training session in preparation for an upcoming World Cup qualifying match, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Oct. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Trees stand barren in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria along a road in Montones Cuatro in the Piedrazul sector of Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

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