The Year in Photos: Latin America and Caribbean

Mass migration in the Americas captured headlines as more Venezuelans flooded neighboring nations to escape economic collapse at home and Central Americans trekked out of their impoverished and violent homelands toward the U.S.

Those stories provided many of the memorable pictures taken by Associated Press photojournalists while covering the news in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2018. This photo gallery showcasing 100 of our favorites starts with the caravans of Central American migrants and is followed by images in the order they were taken, starting with January.

In this April 5, 2018 photo, a migrant says goodbye to a friend through the windshield of a bus that will carry him to the capital from Matias Romero, Oaxaca state, Mexico where Central American migrants with the annual "Stations of the Cross" caravan camped out. The Easter-season caravans have been held annually for about 10 years to draw attention to the plight of migrants, but was never equipped to march all the way to the US. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

In this Oct. 27, 2018 photo, U.S.-bound Central American migrants cross between the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca after federal police briefly blocked their caravan outside the town of Arriaga, Mexico. Some migrants said they joined the caravan because they felt safer with a group while traversing countries with drug trafficking and gang violence. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this Nov. 3, 2018 photo, Central American migrants who are traveling north with a caravan ride on in the trunk of a taxi through Acayucan, Veracruz state, Mexico. In the past four years alone, almost 4,000 migrants have died or gone missing en route through Mexico, The Associated Press has found in an exclusive tally. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

In this Oct. 19, 2018 photo, Central American migrants traveling in a caravan rush across Guatemala's border with Mexico in Tecun Uman, Guatemala. After arriving at the fence, some climbed atop it and on U.S.-donated military jeeps, finally succeeding in tearing down the barrier. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

In this Feb. 28, 2018 photo, the sun sets over the U.S.-Mexico border wall that runs into the Pacific Ocean in Tijuana, Mexico. Mexico's government has refused to pay for a new U.S. border wall, a campaign promise by President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

In this Nov. 25, 2018 photo, Mexican police try to keep Central American migrants from getting past the border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico. The mayor of Tijuana declared a humanitarian crisis in his city and said he asked the U.N. for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants who arrived in caravans. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Nov. 2, 2018 photo, migrants from El Salvador traveling in a caravan cross the Suchiate River, the border between Guatemala and Mexico, after Mexican authorities told them at the border crossing that they would have to show passports and visas in groups of 50 for processing. Afraid they'd be deported, they waded across the river to enter Mexico. (AP Photo/Oscar Rivera)

In this Oct. 19, 2018 photo, a Honduran migrant mother and child are shielded by Mexican federal police from stones thrown by unidentified people as a caravan of migrants tries to cross the Guatemalan border to Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. The mother and child were unsuccessful in their attempt to cross into Mexico and were returned to the Guatemalan side. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

In this Dec. 2, 2018 photo, Honduran migrants climb over the U.S. border fence before handing themselves in to border control agents in order to apply for asylum, seen from Playas of Tijuana, Mexico. Often within minutes, border officers quickly arrive to escort them to detention centers and begin “credible fear” interviews. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Caravans of migrants from Central America bottlenecked roads, waded rivers, toppled border barriers and packed themselves on vehicles as they moved across Mexico, many of them ending up in Tijuana, across from San Diego. Venezuela continued to lose people, in what the U.N. calls the largest exodus in South America's modern history as the country’s citizens struggle to eat three meals a day amid widespread shortages and seven-digit inflation.

Inflation is killing the purchasing power of Argentines, too, whose rate of around 45 percent is one of the world's worst, and they are facing an austerity budget in the coming year.

The corruption conviction of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was Latin America’s highest profile political arrest amid multiple corruption scandals.

The Volcano of Fire suffocated Guatemalan towns, killing almost 200 people and leaving a similar number missing. In Brazil, a fire gutted one of the world's oldest museums in Rio de Janeiro, destroying much of its 20 million-piece collection.

Nicaraguans tired of President Daniel Ortega rose up last spring demanding that he resign while using some of the same makeshift mortars that his rebels wielded when ousting the Somoza family dictatorship in the late 1970s, but police and armed pro-government groups eventually squashed the protest movement, with at least 320 people killed.

Violent protests also rocked Haiti after the government announced a 50 percent hike in gas prices in July and officials backed down, but demonstrators continue to be in the streets and are now calling for the president’s resignation.

In this Jan. 6, 2018 photo, U.S. athlete Ricky Brabec races his Honda motorbike during the Dakar Rally between Lima and Pisco, Peru. This year’s grueling Dakar Rally began on Peruvian sand dunes, took to the highlands of Bolivia and finished in Argentina. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

In this Jan. 13, 2018 photo, lawmaker Julio Juarez Ramirez, far right, stands handcuffed at court where he's accused of orchestrating the 2015 murder of two journalists in Guatemala City. Juarez allegedly hired hit men to kill journalist Danilo Efrain Lopez, fearing that his coverage would hurt Juarez's electoral campaign. A second journalist, Federico Benjamin Salazar, also died. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

In this Jan. 14, 2018 photo, Father Pablo Zabala, affectionately known as "Padre Pablo," squirts holy water from a water bottle during his last Mass as the parish priest in Boca Colorado, in Peru's Madre de Dios region in the Amazon. Zabala first traveled to the Amazon in 1978 as a young biologist collecting butterflies and condors for his university’s museum in Spain. He returned to Peru years later to work in the Amazon as a priest. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this Jan. 15, 2018 photo, an activist dressed as a nun shouts as she's lowered and detained by a police after she and others placed a pro-abortion sign above a road near Pope Francis' expected route, before the pontiff's arrival in Santiago, Chile. This year the Argentine pontiff defrocked a Chilean priest who was a central character in the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

In this Jan. 23, 2018 photo, a youth moves quickly to scoop up grains of corn that fell from a truck while it was looted, just outside the port area of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. At the country's biggest port, people swarmed the corn-carrying truck and began filling up sacks with the grain while the driver was held at gunpoint, amid the worst economic crisis anybody in Latin America can remember. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

In this Jan. 25, 2018, photo, a youth carries his dog Thales who was hit by a stray bullet during a heavy exchange of gunfire between police and alleged drug traffickers in the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The military was put in charge of security in Rio de Janeiro state this year, but critics argue the intervention has targeted poor people and done nothing to address underlying issues like unemployment and income inequality. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

In this Feb. 5, 2018 photo, Cornelio Colque Huanca, dressed as the god of prosperity "Ekeko," the central figure of the Alasita Fair, poses for a portrait in La Paz, Bolivia. "Everything I've asked for has come true, so in appreciation I wanted to dress up as the Ekeko, said Huanca who took 5th place at the Ekeko competition. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

In this Feb. 8, 2018 photo, Maribel Julio Meneses weeps over the body of her son Daniel Julio Julio, a 22-year-old "community police" vigilante who was ambushed and killed while on duty, in the village of Huamuchapa, near Tecoanapa in Guerrero state, Mexico. Fed up with police corruption and drug gang violence, a number of communities have formed citizen police groups. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In this Feb. 10, 2018 photo, a mud covered youth poses in his leaf mask during the Mud Block carnival party in Paraty, Brazil. Revelers wrestled, tackled and threw chunks of gunk at each other while dancing to samba and reggaeton at the beach party where clothes were optional but the mud was not. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

In this Feb. 25, 2018 photo, Pumas' Nicolas Castillo celebrates his goal against Guadalajara as he holds up his teammate Matias Alustiza during a Mexico soccer league match in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Anthony Vazquez)

In this Feb. 28, 2018 photo, Rodrigo Mora of Argentina's River Plate kicks the ball as Rene of Brazil's Flamengo looks on during their Copa Libertadores soccer match in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

In this March 1, 2018 photo, an art restorer works on a 17th century painting at the Ministry of Culture Restoration Center in Cuzco, Peru. The center receives calls for help from small churches in remote Andean villages that have existed for centuries, and many of the paintings have endured punishing rain, sun, mold, nibbling moths and even flawed repairs by untrained hands. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

In this March 9, 2018 photo, 9-year-old Ashley Angelina holds her doll as she hitch-hikes with her twin brother Angel David and parents after crossing the Venezuelan border in their migration to Brazil, near Pacaraima. Hungry and destitute, tens of thousands of victims of Venezuela's unrelenting political and economic crisis tried their luck in Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

In this March 11, 2018 photo, election workers and voters move about the main polling station during legislative elections in Bogota, Colombia. Voters turned to right-wing parties critical of the country's peace deal with the main leftist rebels and knocked the current president's party down in congressional elections, raising questions about the future of the accord. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

In this March 22, 2018 photo, Congress President Luis Galarreta, who was born without arms, speaks on his cell before the start of a debate on the resignation of Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in Lima, Peru. Kuczynski offered his resignation ahead of the impeachment vote, after damaging leaks of confidential documents raised doubts about his integrity and made it impossible to govern. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

In this March 28, 2018 photo, Bolivian soldiers re-enact the battle of "Canchas Blancas," which took place during the Pacific War in 1879 when Bolivia lost to Chile, and in effect lost its access to the sea, in Canchas Blancas, Bolivia, the sight of the actual battle. Bolivia lost its legal battle this year at The Hague's International Court of Justice to recuperate the Pacific coastal lands from Chile. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

In this March 30, 2018 photo, a woman dressed as the Virgin May holds her hands in prayer as a seamstress puts on the finishing touches to her costume in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Christian Haitians commemorated the crucifixion of Jesus Christ by reenacting the Way of the Cross, visiting the 14 stations, each marking an event that befell Jesus Christ on his final journey. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

In this March 31, 2018 photo, America's goalkeeper Agustin Marchesin celebrates his team's second goal by teammate Cecilio Dominguez during a Mexico soccer league match against Cruz Azul in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

In this April 4, 2018 photo, fans of Uruguay's Penarol soccer team cheer before the start of a Copa Libertadores soccer match against Argentina's Atletico Tucuman in Montevideo, Uruguay. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

In this April 5, 2018 photo, Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, front, leaves the Lula Institute with his lawyer in Sao Paulo, Brazil, after an arrest warrant was issued for Lula, a major blow for the once wildly popular leader who was trying to mount a political comeback ahead of elections. (AP Photo/Marcelo Chello)

In this April 5, 2018 photo, Chilean referee Luis Bascunan yells at Colombia's Independiente Santa Fe players during a Copa Libertadores soccer match against Argentina's River Plate in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this April 8, 2018 photo, San Lorenzo soccer fans who are part of the team's most militant fan base sing and dance from the grandstand during a match against Godoy Cruz in Buenos Aires, Argentina. During the 14 years that San Lorenzo lacked a home base, it played in borrowed stadiums and was often the butt of jokes and object of disdain by its rivals. It was then that the fans became inspired to answer with homemade chants. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this April 21, 2018 photo, an inflatable tunnel is illuminated blue before Cruz Azul players go to the field for their Mexico league soccer match with Morelia in Mexico City. This was the last match Cruz Azul played at their home stadium, inaugurated in 1946, before it was demolished for a shopping center. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

In this April 28, 2018 photo, the coffin of Guatemala's former president and current mayor, Alvaro Arzu, who signed Guatemala's post-civil war peace agreement in 1996, is escorted by relatives at the National Palace in Guatemala City. Arzu died of a heart attack. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

In this May 1, 2018 photo, police detain a protester after a May Day march where people protested pension cuts, school closures and slow hurricane recovery efforts in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is struggling to emerge from a 12-year-old recession. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

In this May 3, 2018 photo, a masked man sits outside on his belongings after the building he was living in with other squatters burned down, triggered by a short circuit, in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil. Tens of thousands of working class families in Sao Paulo can't afford to rent an apartment and high transportation costs render low-rent places on the city's outskirts unaffordable. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

In this May 5, 2018 photo, a Haitian migrant bride looks at the camera prior to a mass wedding at a Baptist church of Tijuana, Mexico. Tijuana welcomed thousands of Haitians to pursue a scaled-down American dream south of the border after the U.S. closed its doors on them more than two years ago. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

In this May 8, 2018 photo, children study at a run down school in the Amazonian shantytown of Victoria Gracia, Peru. Plant healer of the Shipibo-Konibo tribe, Olivia Arevalo, was allegedly shot to death by a Canadian man in this town. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

In this May 9, 2018 photo, Diego Souza of Brazil's Sao Paulo screams into a tv camera after scoring against Argentina's Rosario Central during a Copa Sudamericana soccer match in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

In this May 16, 2018 photo, a topless woman with the Spanish message on her back: "Fire to the patriarchy, morals and the state" confronts police spraying a water cannon in Santiago, Chile. Students protested sexual abuse, sexism and demanded equal opportunities for woman in education. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)

In this May 17, 2018 photo, supporters of presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, a former leftist guerrilla, attend a campaign rally in Bogota, Colombia. Petro lost by 12 points to young conservative Ivan Duque. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

In this May 20, 2018 photo, a Bolivarian Militia member plays the flute at a polling station during the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela. Before the government-controlled National Election Council declared current President Nicolas Maduro the overwhelming winner, nations around the world had accused him of taking Venezuela down the path toward "dictatorship." (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

In this May 23, 2018 photo, a boy squeezes between people's legs as he waits outside the Granja Comary training center for a chance to see Brazil's national soccer team in Teresopolis, Brazil. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

In this May 24, 2018 photo, an anti-government protester holds his homemade mortar made with a pipe at a roadblock set up by protesters along the Panamerican Highway in Nagarote, Nicaragua. When President Daniel Ortega and others rose up against the Somoza family dictatorship in the late 1970s, the rebels were woefully outgunned and they used homemade mortars of welded pipe to fire on security forces. Now those same artisanal weapons are being turned on Ortega’s police and gangs of pro-government thugs. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

In this June 8, 2018 photo, volcanic ash covers a dining room set after the Volcano of Fire erupted in San Miguel Los Lotes, Guatemala. The most active volcano in Central America killed 194 people while another 234 are officially missing. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this June 9, 2018 photo, Robin Burbano controls the ball on crutches during a game against El Empalme at a national soccer tournament for players with amputated limbs in Quito, Ecuador. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

In this June 14, 2018 photo, supporters of Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa hold up images of his face to protest an attempt to prosecute him, outside the National Assembly in Quito, Ecuador. Correa has denied the allegation that he ordered the 2012 kidnapping of political rival Fernando Balda, saying it is part of a campaign by the current government to discredit him and destroy his leftist movement. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

In this June 17, 2018 photo, a bloodied soccer fan argues with officers after being injured by the police when soccer fans celebrated Mexico's Russia World Cup game win over Germany, in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Anthony Vazquez)

In this June 20, 2018 photo, a woman spreads incense over the remains of 172 unidentified people who were discovered buried at what once was a military camp during the civil war in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala, one day before their formal burial at the same site where they were unearthed. A genetic bank of the unidentified is saving the samples of DNA for those searching for their relatives in the future. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this June 21, 2018 photo, a girl holds a sign protesting the death of Marcos Vinicius da Silva, illuminated by the vehicle transporting his coffin at a cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Da Silva is one of two 14-year-olds killed by stray bullets on Wednesday that week. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

In this June 23, 2018 photo, a man dressed as the Inca Emperor Atahualpa clutches his beer as he leaves a porta-potty in Cuzco, Peru, the day before the Festival of the Sun, or Inti Raymi. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

In this June 27, 2018 photo, presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves to supporters at his closing campaign rally at Azteca stadium in Mexico City. Lopez Obrador became Mexico’s first leftist president in over 70 years, marking a turning point in one of the world’s most radical experiments in opening markets and privatization. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this June 29, 2018 photo, a woman turns on the catwalk during the Miss Cholita beauty pageant in La Paz, Bolivia. Aymara women participated in the contest that recognizes indigenous women's fashion and beauty as well as their command of indigenous lifestyle and language. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

In this July 5, 2018 photo, police carry their shields alongside a march of journalists protesting the layoffs of about 40 percent of the employees from the Telam public news agency in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentines have been protesting recent government austerity measures and demanding solutions to the country’s economic crisis. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

In this July 6, 2018 photo, a fan of Uruguay's soccer team cries after watching Uruguay lose to France in a live television broadcast of the Russia World Cup match in Montevideo, Uruguay. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

In this July 7, 2018 photo, a man looks inside a car before setting it on fire at the Royal Oasis hotel during protests over a fuel price increase in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The government announced an increase in prices for gasoline, diesel and kerosene, part of a plan endorsed by the IMF to modernize the economy, but then cancelled the hike after violent protests broke out. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

In this July 8, 2018 photo, acrobat Brenda Aguila is assisted by "Vaguito" the clown as she prepares to hang from her neck at the Tony Perejil circus set up in the shanty town of Puente Piedra on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. The mom-and-pop style spectacle is one of about a hundred remaining circuses in Peru that manage to eke out a living despite waning public enthusiasm for clown and animal acts in an age of viral internet videos and cellphones. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

In this July 17, 2018 photo, an armed, pro-government Sandinista militia stands guard at a torn down barricade, which had been set up by anti-government protesters, after police and militias stormed the Monimbo neighborhood of Masaya, Nicaragua. Heavily armed police and militias laid siege to and then retook a symbolically important neighborhood that had recently become a center of resistance to President Daniel Ortega's government. (AP Photo/Cristobal Venegas)

In this July 26, 2018 photo, a young horse is transported in a horse-drawn carriage along the main road of Camaguey, Cuba. The horse was carried to protect its soft hooves from the asphalt and prevent it from getting spooked by passing cars. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this July 27, 2018 photo, Paraguay's President Horacio Cartes straightens his tie as he waits for the arrival of the coffin of his Agriculture Minister Luis Gneiting for a memorial service in Asuncion, Paraguay. The minister and three other people died when the twin-engine plane they were traveling in went down shortly after taking off at night. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

In this July 30, 2018 photo, revelers play in and around a huge burning papier mache bull full of exploding fireworks in the Santiago Teyuhalco neighborhood of Tultepec, Mexico. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

In this Aug. 2, 2018 photo, family members of slain Ronald Blanco try to clean his blood from the alleyway of the Japon neighborhood where the Barrio 18 gang operates Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Family members sprinkled holy water and prayed at the site before working to wash away the blood stains, as passing neighbors gave them their condolences. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

In this Aug. 3, 2018 photo, men shade themselves with cardboard boxes as they wait in line for a vehicle census, a first step to regulate the sale of gasoline, in Caracas, Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro said that some of the world’s cheapest gasoline that Venezuelan drivers enjoy will soon be sold at world market prices, but that those showing their government-issued identification card at the pump will still be able to buy subsidized gasoline. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

In this Aug. 7, 2018 photo, zoo keeper Mariano Narvaez trains African elephant Pupy at an eco-park in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The deaths of two animals fueled charges by conservationists that an attempt by the city government to turn the 140-year-old zoo into an "eco-park" and relocate most of its 1,500 animals to sanctuaries has been a poorly planned disaster. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this Aug. 8, 2018 photo, women who want to decriminalize abortion get soaked as they protest outside Congress where lawmakers are debating the issue in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Senate decided against legalizing elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this Aug. 10, 2018 photo, Geraldo Alckmin, a former governor and presidential hopeful, gets his make up done during a break at a presidential debate in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Alckmin lost to Congressman Jair Bolsonaro, who had almost double the support. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

In this Aug. 15, 2018 photo, a supporter of Brazil's jailed, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is carried in a hammock during his hunger strike to protest the former leader's corruption conviction, during a march in Brasilia, Brazil. The Workers' Party registered da Silva as its candidate for president, attempting to muscle him into the race, but ultimately were unable to get Da Silva on the ballot. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

In this Aug. 22, 2018 photo, Argentine couple Maksim Gerasimov and Agustina Piaggio compete in the stage category of the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this Aug. 23, 2018 photo, Julia Flores Colque, born on Oct. 26, 1900 in a mining camp in the Bolivian mountains, looks into the camera outside her home in Sacaba, Bolivia. At age 117, Colque is be the oldest woman in the Andean nation and perhaps the oldest living person in the world. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

In this Aug. 26, 2018 photo, the Bolivian community holds a procession honoring Our Lady of Urkupina in Asuncion, Paraguay. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

In this Aug. 28, 2018 photo, men who scavenge trash for valuables climb on a trash truck before it unloads at the Truitier landfill in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The landfill, home to about 500 families, is the center of deadly cholera outbreaks when flat lands flood during the rainy season and become a breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

In this Aug. 30, 2018 photo, a woman watches the news on the value of the Argentine peso versus the U.S. dollar in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Inflation is killing the purchasing power of Argentines whose rate of around 45 percent is one of the world's worst. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this Aug. 31, 2018 photo, a supporter of the president's decision to shut down an anti-graft commission protests amid fire crackers outside the U.N. International Commission Against Impunity (CICIG) office in Guatemala City. The government reiterated in Sept. it is refusing to readmit Ivan Velasquez, head of a U.N. commission investigating corruption. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

In this Sept. 1, 2018 photo, 10-year-old Venezuelan migrant Angelis combs the hair of her mother Sandra Cadiz as they take a break from walking to 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 Sept. 2, 2018 photo, flames engulf the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The blaze gutted one of the world's oldest museums, destroying much of the 20 million piece collection. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

In this Sept. 4, 2018 photo, Saul Ronaldo Atiliano, 45, is carried by comrades while arriving to Puerto Lempira, Honduras, after suffering decompression syndrome while fishing for lobsters in the ocean. Some divers become victims of a what medical science calls “decompression sickness,” an illness caused when nitrogen bubbles form in divers’ bodies potentially causing paralysis and even death. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

In this Sept. 6, 2018 photo, Modesta Cabanas stands behind her home's security gate on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cabanas feeds her family at a soup kitchen, and says that since Argentina's economic crisis started, the portions are much smaller because more people are eating there. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

In this Sept. 8, 2018 photo, people take pictures of a procession honoring the Virgin of Charity, Cuba's patron saint, in Havana, Cuba. The saint is also recognized as a powerful deity in the African-influenced religion of Santeria which refers to her as "Ochun." (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

In this Sept. 9, 2018 photo, a handicapped man on crutches is carried amid police tear gas as protesters demand to know how the government spent Petro Caribe funds, intended to help Haiti rebuild after the 2010 earthquake, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Protesters say projects are unfinished and officials inflated costs to steal money. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

In this Sept. 11, 2018 photo, a lone wall from a home destroyed one year prior by Hurricane Maria stands in the mountain town of Naranjito, Puerto Rico. Maria destroyed over 200,000 homes on the island. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

In this Sept. 14, 2018 photo, crime scene workers cover the bodies of four people who were shot to death in Garibaldi Plaza in Mexico City. Homicides in Mexico rose by 16 percent in the first half of 2018, as the country again broke its own records for violence. (AP Photo)

In this Sept. 17, 2018 photo, a fisherman removes an insect from his boat as he works in the area where dozens of clandestine burial pits were found holding at least 166 human skulls in Arbolillo, Veracruz state, Mexico. The grave is one of the biggest mass graves discovered so far in Mexico. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

In this Sept. 19, 2018 photo, Dede of Brazil's Cruzeiro, left, and goalkeeper Esteban Andrada, of Argentina's Boca Juniors, collide during a Copa Libertadores soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

In this Sept. 20, 2018 photo, a boy in costume clutching a Guatemalan flag sits outside a local fast food restaurant as he waits with his father for a march against Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and corruption to start in Guatemala City. People protested Morales' decision to end the work of a U.N. anti-corruption commission that has helped lead high-profile graft probes targeting dozens of powerful people, including one involving the president. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

In this Sept. 24, 2018 photo, fans of Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello take pictures during her Never Be the Same Tour in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

In this Oct. 2, 2018 photo, Andres Cadavid of Colombia's Millonarios kicks the ball past Facundo Guichon of Colombia's Independiente Santa Fe during a Copa Sudamericana soccer match in Bogota, Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

In this Oct. 4, 2018 photo, a Harpy Eagle peers from its enclosure at the La Reserva Biopark in Cota, Colombia. The eagle was rescued one month prior by Colombian Air Force after it was shot by hunters. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

In this Oct. 5, 2018 photo, a photograph of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro hangs above the main desk at the Labor Ministry, as protesters demand better wages outside the headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela. Inflation is expected to have topped 1 million percent in 2018. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

In this Oct. 7, 2018 photo, a boy injured by an aftershock gets stitches at the general hospital in Port-de-Paix, Haiti. A magnitude 5.2 aftershock that killed at least 12 people struck as survivors of the previous day's temblor were sifting through the rubble of their homes. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

In this Oct. 24, 2018 photo, 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. Boca won 2-0. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

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

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

In this Nov. 1, 2018 photo, Olga Socorec balances flowers on her head as she poses for a portrait while decorating the tombs of family members, including her father's, during Day of the Dead celebrations at the cemetery in Santiago Sacatepequez, Guatemala. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

In this Nov. 13, 2018 photo, a man takes a public bucket shower with his nephew on his back in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Most residents in Cite Soleil do not have bathrooms, and bathe outdoors. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

In this Nov. 18, 2018 photo, sex workers model creations at the Daspu fashion show in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Daspu, a wordplay on the expression "Das putas" that means "The hookers" in Portuguese, is a fashion house founded and run by the city's prostitutes that works for better health, safety and legal conditions for sex workers. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

In this Nov. 19, 2018 photo taken with a long exposure, the Volcano of Fire spews lava from its crater in Antigua, Guatemala, prompting evacuations from nearby towns. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

In this Nov. 22, 2018 photo, a woman joins a march against sexism and gender violence in Santiago, Chile. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

In this Nov. 28, 2018 photo, demonstrators burn banners during a march demanding more money for education and protest tax reform in Bogota, Colombia. Student unions are demanding the government spend at least $1.5 billion on public universities that have seen enrollment quadruple over the past two decades. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

In this Nov. 30, 2018 photo, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wait for the G20 group photo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. All eyes were on the Saudi Crown Prince at the Group of 20 summit as he made his first major overseas appearance since the killing of a dissident journalist in his country’s consulate in Istanbul. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

In this Dec. 4, 2018 photo, female prisoner Mayana Rosa Alves wears the crown she won at last year's beauty pageant, before this year's beauty contest at the Talavera Bruce penitentiary in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jail authorities organize the contests to encourage self-esteem, fight idleness and promote integration among women prisoners. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

In this Dec. 9, 2018 photo, River Plate soccer fans celebrate their team's 3-1 victory over Boca Juniors and clenching the Copa Libertadores championship title, at the Obelisk in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

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Curated by photo editor Leslie Mazoch from the Latin America and Caribbean photo desk in Mexico City.

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