Latin America & Caribbean in review

Latin America and Caribbean in review is a monthly gallery featuring some of the top photojournalism made by AP staff photographers and freelancers during the month of October.

A Honduran migrant with his face covered with sunscreen stands on a bridge that stretches over the Suchiate River connecting Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, as part of a second caravan of about 1,000 migrants try to cross into the country from Honduras. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Members of a US-bound migrant caravan cross a bridge between the Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca after federal police briefly blocked them outside the town of Arriaga, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. Hundreds of Mexican federal officers carrying plastic shields had blocked the caravan from advancing toward the United States, after several thousand of the migrants turned down the chance to apply for refugee status and obtain a Mexican offer of benefits. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Thousands of Central American migrants rush across the border towards Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, as part of a second migrant caravan. After arriving at the tall, yellow metal fence some clambered atop it and on U.S.-donated military jeeps, as young men began violently tugging on the barrier and finally succeeded in tearing it down. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

A Honduran migrant mother and child are shielded by Mexican Federal Police from stones thrown by unidentified people, at the border crossing in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. The mother and child were unsuccessful in their attempt to cross into Mexico and were returned to the Guatemalan side. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Migrants tired of waiting to cross into Mexico jump from a border bridge into the Suchiate River in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, as a second caravan makes its way to the U.S. Some of the migrants traveling in a mass caravan towards the U.S.-Mexico border organized a rope brigade to ford its muddy waters. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

A second group of Central American migrants are met by Mexican Federal Police after they waded in mass across the Suchiate River, which connects Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. The first group was able to cross the river on rafts, an option now blocked by Mexican Navy river and shore patrols, but police eventually allowed their passage. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Migrants traveling in a caravan to the U.S. border rest on the railroad tracks in Arriaga, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Many migrants said they felt safer traveling and sleeping with several thousand strangers in unknown towns rather than hiring a smuggler or trying to make the trip alone. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Central American migrants gather around a fire at a camp set up by a caravan of thousands of migrants, in Juchitan, Mexico, after sunset Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. This caravan of about 4,000 mainly Honduran migrants set up camp Tuesday in the Oaxaca state city of Juchitan, which was devastated by an earthquake in September 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Central Americans cling to the back of a truck as a thousands-strong migrant caravan slowly heads north in hopes of reaching the U.S. border, between Pijijiapan and Tonala, Chiapas state, Mexico, before dawn on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Many migrants said they felt safer traveling and sleeping with several thousand strangers in unknown towns than hiring a smuggler or trying to make the trip alone. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Migrants ride on a truck near Tapanatepec, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. Thousands of migrants traveling together for safety resumed their journey to the U.S. border after taking a rest day Sunday in Tapanatepec, while hundreds more migrants were pushing for entry to Mexico. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A rescued, disabled dog equipped with a wheelchair eyes the camera at the shelter Rescaes, the Spanish acronym for Rescued With Special Needs, in Itapuami, Paraguay, Oct. 17, 2018. Veterinarian Raul Tuma says that pets without mobility "deserve to have the cart with wheels because they can not live without being able to walk." (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Bodies lie in the morgue of the general hospital after a 5.9 magnitude earthquake hit Port-de-Paix, Haiti, Oct. 7, 2018. The death toll rose to 17 people with hundreds injured, authorities said. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Residents look at a collapsed school after a magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit the night before in Gros Morne, Haiti, Oct. 7, 2018. The quake killed at least 11 people and left dozens injured. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

A boy who was injured by an aftershock receives treatment at the general hospital in Port-de-Paix, Haiti, Oct. 7, 2018. A magnitude 5.2 aftershock struck Haiti on Sunday, even as survivors of the previous day's temblor were sifting through the rubble of their cinderblock homes. The death toll stood at 12, with fears it could rise. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Dario Benedetto of Argentina's Boca Juniors, right, celebrates his first of two goals against Brazil's Palmeiras during a Copa Libertadores semifinal first leg soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. Boca won 2-0. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

Archaeologists clean the clay masks of wooden idols that protect the entrance to a ceremonial center in the pre-Columbian adobe city of Chan Chan, near Trujillo, Peru, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. Peru's Ministry of Culture presented the wooden idols as part of a series of important archaeological discoveries in the Chan Chan citadel belonging to the ancient Chimu empire who were conquered by the Incas in the late 15th century. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

People wait in line to vote in the general election at a polling station in the Mare Complex slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 7, 2018. Brazilians choose among 13 candidates for president Sunday in one of the most unpredictable and divisive elections in decades. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A supporter of presidential front-runner Jair Bolsonaro wears a headband supporting his candidate as he waits with others for election results outside the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, Oct. 28, 2018. Brazilian voters decide who will next lead the world's fifth-largest country, the left-leaning Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party, or right-leaning rival Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

A supporter of presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro poses for a photo with an oversized, fake rifle, as she celebrates the election runoff results in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 28, 2018. Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal declared the right-leaning congressman the next president of Latin America’s biggest country. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Jair Bolsonaro, presidential candidate with the Social Liberal Party, gestures after voting in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 28, 2018. The right-leaning Bolsonaro ran running leftist candidate Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party and won. (AP Photo/Silvia izquierdo)

A supporter of Workers' Party presidential candidate Fernando Haddad embraces a fellow distraught supporter, after learning that rival Jair Bolsonaro was declared the winner in the presidential runoff election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oct. 28, 2018. Addressing supporters in Sao Paulo, Haddad did not concede or even mention Bolsonaro by name. Instead, his speech was a promise to resist. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)

Luis Seijas of Colombia's Independiente Santa Fe reacts after missing a chance to score during a Copa Sudamericana soccer match against Deportivo Cali in Bogota, Colombia, Oct. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Luz Alban, the sister of opposition activist Fernando Alban places a portrait of her brother shadowed by an image of Jesus Christ, on his flag-draped casket during a ceremony at the National Assembly headquarters, in Caracas, Venezuela, Oct. 9, 2018. Questions and condemnation of Venezuela's leadership poured in following the suspicious death of Alban who authorities say evaded justice by throwing himself from the 10th floor of a police building. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Anti-government protesters are arrested and taken away by police as security forces disrupt their march, coined "United for Freedom," in Managua, Nicaragua, Oct. 14, 2018. Anti-government protests calling for President Daniel Ortega's resignation are ongoing since April, triggered by a since-rescinded government plan to cut social security pensions. Ortega said opponents will have to wait until his term ends in 2021. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

An image of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro hangs above the main desk at the Labor Ministry as workers demanding better wages protest outside the building, in Caracas, Venezuela, Oct. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Pigeons fly in front of a mural of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, on a wall of the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador, Oct. 3. 2018. Romero will be canonized in Rome by Pope Francis on Sunday, Oct. 14th. Romero was assassinated in 1980 while celebrating Mass by a gunman hired by right-wing death squads. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Demonstrators march in remembrance of the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City, Oct. 2, 2018. Mexico marked the massacre of student protesters by army troops 50 years ago. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Argentina's River Plate players celebrate defeating Brazil's Gremio at a Copa Libertadores semifinal second leg match in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Oct. 30, 2018. River advances to the finals. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A child stands near his home damaged by Hurricane Willa in Escuinapa, Mexico, Oct. 24, 2018. There were no immediate reports of deaths or missing people, but Willa's strong winds damaged a hospital, knocked out power, toppled wood-shack homes and ripped metal roofing off other houses in the Sinaloa state municipality of Escuinapa when it came ashore. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

In this Aug. 31, 2018 photo published in October, Venezuelan migrants line up for free bread and coffee donated by a Colombian family from their car, at a gas station in Pamplona, Colombia. Millions have fled Venezuela's deadly shortages and spiraling hyperinflation in an exodus that rivals even the European refugee crisis in numbers. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

In this Sept. 1, 2018 photo published in October, 10-year-old Venezuelan Angelis combs the hair of her mother Sandra Cadiz as they take a break from walking to the Berlin paramo, which leads to the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia, on their journey to Peru. The daughter of a housewife and a cemetery worker, Cadiz had grown up to know great misfortune, but she had never expected to know exile. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

In this photo provided by the OIS/IOC, Ecuador's Jeremy Renzo Peralta Gonzalez celebrates his silver medal win during the men's Greco-Roman 45kg wrestling event during the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 12, 2018. (Florian Eisele/OIS/IOC via AP)

In this photo provided by the OIS/IOC, a performer repelling from the Obelisk of Buenos Aires holds the Argentine national flag at the start of the Youth Olympic Summer Games opening ceremony, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 6, 2018. Over 4,000 of the world’s best young athletes between the ages of 15 to 18 are in the Argentinian capital for the third edition of the Youth Olympic Summer Games, the first time in Olympic history that an equal number of male and female athletes are competing in the youth games. (Florian Eisele/OIS/IOC via AP)

In this photo provided by the OIS/IOC, USA's May Tieu, left, and France's Venissia Thepaut compete in a mixed continental fencing team match during the Youth Olympic Summer Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 10, 2018. (Ian Walton /OIS/IOC via AP)

In this photo provided by the OIS/IOC, China’s Lin Shan takes a practice dive during the Youth Olympic Summer Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 8, 2018. (Jed Leicester/OIS/IOC via AP)

In this photo provided by the OIS/IOC, athletes are reflected in water during the Women's Athletics 3000m during the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 12, 2018. (Joel Marklund/OIS/IOC via AP)

In this photo provided by the OIS/IOC, Italy's Vincenzo Maiorca takes the lead as Taiwan's Chiawei Chang, center, and The Netherland's Merijn Scheperkamp fall during the Roller Speed Skating Men's Combined Speed Event during the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. (Simon Bruty/OIS/IOC via AP)

Fans of Brazil's Gremio celebrate on the fence after Michel's goal against Argentina's River Plate during a Copa Libertadores semifinal first leg soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 23, 2018. Gremio won 1-0. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Members of the Thai team Wild Boars tour River Plate's Monumental stadium on the sidelines of the Youth Olympic Summer Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 7, 2018. The team made up of 12 boys and their coach, who were rescued from a cave in Thailand, played a friendly match against the youth team of River Plate. (Eitan Abramovich/Pool via AP)

The honor guard military band marches after the arrival of El Salvador's President Salvador Sanchez Ceren at Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Oct. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Activists dance to celebrate outside the Legislative Palace after the approval of the Integral Law for Trans People that was passed by legislators in Montevideo, Uruguay, Oct. 19, 2018. The law grants transgender people the right to get an operation that matches their sexual identity and be paid for by the state along with hormone treatments. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

A model wears a creation from the Ao collection, which is part of the Estufa project, during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oct. 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A model wears a creation from the Joao Pimenta collection during Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oct. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A performer wearing a Monarch butterfly costume attends the Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City Oct. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)

A plume of ash and steam rise from the Popocatepetl volcano, seen from Mexico City, Oct. 15, 2018. The volcano known as “Don Goyo” has been active since 1994. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

People burn a U.S. flag outside the U.S. embassy to protest in favor of the migrant caravan stuck on the Guatemala-Mexico border, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Oct. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, from Britain, drives in a practice run for the upcoming Formula One Mexico Grand Prix auto race, as a fan waves a Mexican flag at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Oct. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, of Britain, rides a scooter to the pit lane ahead of the first training session of the Formula One Mexico Grand Prix auto race at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Oct. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

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Edited by Anita Baca, photo editor for Latin America and Caribbean, in Mexico City.