Latin America in review

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

Relatives place the body of Kimberly Dayana Fonseca, 19, in a coffin at a morgue in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

Supporters of presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla rest next to their roadblock as they protest what they call electoral fraud in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Masked supporters of presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla take a selfie at a burning roadblock set up by demonstrators protesting what they call electoral fraud in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017 photo, a samba band member turns a broom, beer can and string into a selfie stick at the Oswaldo Cruz neighborhood, marking Samba Day, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A man walks under a canopy of umbrellas serving as a Christmas decoration, in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

In this Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017 photo, a voter walks to a polling station to vote in the country's judicial elections in Mecapaca, Bolivia. More than 50% of the ballots cast on Sunday were nulled by voters. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Mariana Shevchuk, of Ukraine, shouts after a successful lift that secured her the silver medal in the women's up to 55kg Group A event, at the World Para Powerlifting Championships in Mexico City, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Fans of Brazil's Flamengo soccer team light flares in the stands during a Copa Sudamericana final championship soccer match against Argentina's Independiente at Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Dec.13, 2017. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

In this Dec. 22, 2017 photo, an anti-government protestor blocks a road, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

A boy plays soccer next to soldiers on patrol during an operation in the Mangueira slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

In this Nov. 12, 2017 photo published Friday, Dec. 1, Luana Borges helps her daughter Luana Silva dress for the Azorean Culture Festival, in Enseada de Brito, Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Basketball fan David Martinez, of Monterrey, poses with a cardboard cutout of Oklahoma City Thunder's player Russell Westbrook before a regular-season NBA basketball game against the Brooklyn Nets in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

High school student music band members wait to play in the annual Christmas parade in Panama City, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Tigres' soccer player Damian Alvarez is thrown into the air during celebrations after his team's victory over Monterrey and clenching of the Mexican soccer league championship title in Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)

Estefani Garcia wears illuminated glasses as she marches in a music band during the annual Christmas parade in Panama City, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

A delegate sits waiting for the start of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A pilgrim carries on his back a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe toward the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

National Congress President Luis Galarreta presides over a special session on whether to initiate impeachment proceeding against the country's president, in Lima, Peru, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A guardian of St. Thomas holds a scepter decorated with an image of the Saint, as he enters the home of the family that has been caring for the image over the past year, during festivities in honor of the patron Saint of Chichicastenango, Guatemala, Monday, Dec. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

New members of the National Police parade during their graduation ceremony from at the Police Academy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Dec. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

A medical student kicks away a canister of tear gas during clashes with students protesting in solidarity with striking doctors in La Paz, Bolivia. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Residents reach out for free food from the relatives of two Mennonites kidnapped by the rebels of the Paraguay's People's Army (EPP) in the Pelopincho neighborhood of Asuncion, Paraguay, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

In this Dec. 9, 2017 photo, David Martinez plays inside his home, located in a neighborhood where the opposition set up a free food and medical campaign in La Guaira, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

In this combination of photos taken on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017, Anasaria Ortiz, 74, left, herson Juan Carlos Gutierrez, 37, center, and her husband Pasion Gutierrez, 81, pose for a portrait wearing traditional Panamanian pintao hats in El Jaguito, Panama. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

In this Friday, Dec. 15, 2017 photo, Carmen Cintron, founder of Canita Sanctuary that protects abandoned animals from being euthanized, nuzzles one of her rescue dogs in Guayama, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

In this Friday, Dec. 15, 2017 photo, police block protesters from reaching the National Palace during clashes with students protesting in solidarity with striking doctors in La Paz, Bolivia. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

An inmate wears red horns as part of her costume representing evil and temptation, during the 8th annual Christmas event at the Nelson Hungria Prison, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

In this Monday, Dec. 18, 2017 photo, protesters clash with police during a general strike against a pension reform measure, outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

In this Monday, Dec. 18, 2017 photo, a police officer helps a demonstrator remove herself from clashes during a general strike against pension reform outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Demonstrators protest against reforms to the retirement and pension system, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this Nov. 30, 2017 photos, Ixil Mayans carry the remains of their loved ones killed during the civil war to the cemetery for burial in Santa Avelina, Guatemala. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

In this Nov. 29, 2017 photo, clothing, earrings and a doll that were found among the remains of over 100 Ixil Mayans exhumed from a mass grave, lay on display for hopeful identification by relatives in Santa Avelina, Guatemala. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

In this Dec. 27, 2017 photo, children transport a cooking bowl for their mother in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Cite Soleil is an extremely impoverished and densely populated slum located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in Haiti. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Supporters of Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski shout slogans as they are held back by the police outside the Peruvian Congress, in Lima, Peru, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

The ex-wife of a judge who said she was attacked by him, cries as she joins a protest against femicides in Asuncion, Paraguay, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

In this Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017 photo, people pray next to the coffin of slain journalist Gumaro Perez during his wake inside his mother's home in Acayucan, Veracruz state, Mexico. The 34-year-old Perez was shot to death Tuesday while at a Christmas party at his son's school in Acayucan. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Argentina's Independiente goalkeeper Martin Campana, right, fights for the ball with Brazil's Flamengo Felipe Vizeu during a Copa Sudamericana first leg final soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Members of Sao Paulo's Commerce Association release fifty thousand balloons to celebrate the New Year in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)

Dancers in wheelchairs perform during the opening ceremony of the World Para Swimming and Para Powerlifting Championships in Mexico City, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Bryan Gonzalez, 14, poses for a portrait in his devil costume at a procession symbolizing the fight between good and evil that celebrates the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception in Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

Electoral workers sport costumes during the presidential runoff election in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017. Chileans will decide Sunday whether to swing the world's top copper-producing country to the right or maintain its center-left path in a fiercely contested election. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

In this Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017 photo, Brazil's Flamengo Rever, center, celebrates his goal against Argentina's Independiente during a Copa Sudamericana first leg, final soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Independiente went on to win the opening leg 2-1. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017 photo, lines of improvised homes create the squatter community coined "Povo Sem Medo," or Fearless People, in Sao Bernardo do Campo, a suburb of Sao Paulo, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

In this Nov. 9, 2017 photo published on Dec. 5, goat skinner Sonson Pierre hauls goat pelts at the La Saline slaughterhouse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The 28-year-old, who has worked at the open-air market for 12 years, is dismayed that a market which provides meat to most of the capital's supermarkets and restaurant, is so unregulated. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Argentina's Independiente celebrates winning the Copa Sudamericana championship title after tying 1-1 with Brazil's Flamengo at Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A faithful carries flowers as an offering for Yemanja, goddess of the sea, during a ceremony that is part of traditional New Year's celebrations on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Argentina's Independiente fans cheer from the stands during a Copa Sudamericana first leg final soccer match against Brazil's Flamengo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A runner stands with life-size puppets attached to him, prior to the start of the Sao Silvestre race in Sao Paulo, Brazil, early Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017. The 15-kilometer race is held annually on New Year's Eve. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)

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