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 January.

Men watch fireworks exploding over Copacabana beach for the New Year's celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A young woman holds a sign asking Pope Francis to call her as she waits for him to arrive for an outdoor Mass in Panama City, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Journalists standing on a press scaffolding are silhouetted against the morning sky as they wait for Pope Francis to celebrate Mass in Panama City, Jan. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis arrives at the foreign ministry headquarters Palacio Bolivar, in Panama City, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis is given a water salute as his plane departs Tocumen Airport after a five-day visit in Panama City, Jan. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A woman kisses a cross during a rally to protest terrorism in Bogota, Colombia, Jan. 20, 2019. A car bombing at a Bogota police academy that authorities have attributed to rebels of the National Liberation Army killed 21 people and left dozens more wounded on Jan. 17. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A bridge is destroyed after a dam collapsed in Brumadinho, Brazil, Jan. 26, 2019. Rescuers searched for survivors in a huge area in southeastern Brazil buried by mud from the collapse of dam holding back mine waste.(AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A helicopter lifts a body recovered from the mud days after a Vale mine dam collapsed in Brumadinho, Brazil, Jan. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

A family embraces during a vigil for the victims of the collapsed mining dam in Brumadinho, Brazil, Jan. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A cow is stuck in the mud that flooded the area after a dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil, Jan. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

This Jan. 29, 2019 satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows mud flooding an area days after a Vale mine dam collapsed on Jan. 25, near Brumadinho, Brazil. (DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company via AP)

Fish swim past mud that was released by the collapse of a Vale mining dam in a tributary that leads to Paraopeba River near a community of the Pataxo Ha-ha-hae indigenous people, in Brumadinho, Brazil, Jan. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Competitors ride their motorbikes across the dunes during stage nine of the Dakar Rally in Pisco, Peru, Jan. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

A rider performs a stunt during kick-off events for the Dakar Rally in Lima, Peru, Jan. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Italian co-driver Angelo Montico smokes as he competes in stage eight of the Dakar Rally, between San Juan de Marcona and Pisco, Peru, Jan. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Dakar fans scout for a good spot on the dunes to watch stage six of the Dakar Rally between Arequipa and San Juan de Marcona, Peru, Jan. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Women travel in the back of a truck during the funeral procession for Felipe Gomez Alonzo to the cemetery in Yalambojoch, Guatemala, Jan. 27, 2019. On Christmas Eve, the 8-year-old boy became the second Guatemalan child to die while in U.S. custody near the Mexican border. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

A girl plays under an Argentine flag as demonstrators protest the increase in public service fees in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Indigenous women protest the government's policies on land and environmental protections outside the Agriculture Ministry in Brasilia, Brasil, Jan. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

A woman throws flowers into the sea during a memorial service for late photojournalist Desmond Boylan, from the Malecon promenade where some of his ashes were also scattered into the water at sunset in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 1, 2019. Boylan, a photographer who covered war and conflict across the world before dedicating his life to documenting the daily joys and tribulations of life in Cuba for The Associated Press, died suddenly while on assignment on Dec. 29 in Havana. He was 54. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gestures to military leaders to keep their eyes open, after an opposition leader declared himself interim president, as he leaves a press conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Anti-government protesters run from security forces as they show support for a mutiny by a national guard unit in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 21, 2019. Residents set fire to a street barricade of trash and chanted demands that President Nicolas Maduro leave office. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

National Guard soldiers detain an anti-government protester, whose face they covered, after a rally demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Anti-government protesters hold their hands up during the symbolic swearing-in of Juan Guaido, head of the opposition-run congress, who declared himself interim president of Venezuela, during a rally demanding President Nicolas Maduro's resignation in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela's self-declared interim President, Juan Guaido, speaks to anti-government protesters in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

An elderly woman is offered cash as she begs at a wholesale food market in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 28, 2019. Economists agree that the longer the standoff between a U.S.-backed opposition leader and the president drags on, the more regular Venezuelans are likely to suffer. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Adolfo Bogarin, president of the Afro-Paraguayan cultural group Kamba Cua, center, helps carry a statue of Saint Balthazar, one of the Three Kings, as they hold a torch-lit procession to mark Epiphany in Fernando de la Mora, Paraguay, Jan. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

In this Dec.13, 2018 photo published in Jan. 2019, Laura, a transgender girl, looks through a glass door during recess at the Amaranta Gomez school for transgender children in Santiago, Chile. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Cuban soldiers take pictures of themselves during the march of torches marking the 166th anniversary of the birth of Cuba's national independence hero Jose Marti and to pay tribute to late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A man's body lies on the pavement after he was shot to death, as his parents hug nearby in Acapulco, Mexico, Jan. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Bernardindo Hernandez)

Dancers perform with fire during the Dance, Theater and Visual Arts International Festival Santiago "A Mil" in Santiago, Chile, Jan. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Musicians and a reveler in costume get ready to participate in the feast of "La Diablada" in Pillaro, Ecuador, Jan. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Brazil's Fabiana trains with her Brazilian national soccer team ahead of the women's World Cup in France in Teresopolis, Brazil, Jan. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A masked demonstrator adds wood to a burning roadblock during a protest against the government of Honduras' President Juan Orlando Hernandez in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Jan. 27, 2019, on the anniversary of Hernandez's reelection. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

Forensic experts work the site of an oil pipeline explosion in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo state, Mexico, Jan. 19, 2019. A massive fireball that engulfed people scooping up fuel spilling from a pipeline ruptured by thieves killed dozens of people and badly burned many more. (AP Photo/Claudio Cruz)

Flanked by first lady Michelle Bolsonaro, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, waves after his swearing-in ceremony in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

England's Ben Stokes opens his mouth to catch raindrops on the third day of the first cricket Test match against West Indies in Bridgetown, Barbados, Jan. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

England cricket fans watch the first day of the second Test cricket match against West Indies, from a pool at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua and Barbuda, Jan. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

West Indies' captain Jason Holder celebrates his double century against England on the fourth day of their first cricket Test match in Bridgetown, Barbados, Jan. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Jailed men identified by authorities as members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang are escorted in handcuffs by masked prison guards to the Zacatras high security prison where they will await trials for murder in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador, Jan. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Demonstrators protest a hike in bus fare, almost 7.5 percent, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jan. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

A masked, female member of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) stands by a mural depicting a masked version of the Virgin of Guadalupe, at an event marking the 25th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising in La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico, Jan. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

A car overturned by a tornado lays smashed on top of a street pole in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

People left homeless by a tornado carry their belongings to a bus as they move to a shelter in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Supporters of presidential frontrunner Nayib Bukele, of the Grand National Alliance for Unity, GANA, rally in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 30, 2019. Bukele won the election on Feb. 3, breaking the three-decade hold on power of the country's two dominant parties. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

An airplane flies a banner that reads in Spanish "Vote for the FMLN" over a closing presidential campaign rally in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 27, 2019, ahead of the presidential election. FMLN lost to Nayib Bukele with the GANA — the Grand Alliance for National Unity party. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

A Central American migrant awaiting a humanitarian visa from Mexico washes his pants in the Suchiate River, the natural the border between Mexico and Guatemala, on the riverbank near Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas state, Mexico, Jan. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Migrants run from tear gas fired by U.S. Border Protection agents after they climbed the fence in an attempt to enter San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico, Jan. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Family members pay their last respects to Felipe Gomez Alonzo, an 8-year-old migrant boy who died in U.S. custody at a New Mexico hospital on Christmas Eve, in Yalambojoch, Guatemala, Jan. 26, 2019. Felipe and his father were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in mid-December. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Ileze Dariel, of Tijuana, Mexico, reaches for the hand of her daughter Jimena as they wait for a photographer while taking family pictures on the beach next to the border wall, right, Jan. 9, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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Edited by Leslie Mazoch, photo editor based in Mexico City.

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