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 February.

Masked anti-government protesters gather a few blocks from the international bridge in Urena, Venezuela, Feb. 24, 2019, on the border with Colombia where Venezuelan soldiers continue to block U’S. humanitarian aid from entering into the country. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Opposition supporters converge in front of La Carlota military base urging soldiers to join their fight and allow the entry of U.S. humanitarian aid, in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Bolivarian National Guard troops man a barricade blocking access to the Francisco De Paula Santander international bridge in Urena, Venezuela, on the border with Colombia, Feb. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A Venezuelan youth, injured in clashes with Venezuelan National Guardsmen, is carried to a safe zone, at the Simon Bolivar International Bridge in La Parada, Colombia, Feb. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

An officer of the Bolivarian National Guard fires his shotgun during clashes in Urena, Venezuela, near the border with Colombia, Feb. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Demonstrators run from tear gas fired by Bolivarian National Guard officers during clashes in Urena, Venezuela, near the border with Colombia, Feb. 23, 2019.(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A demonstrator gets caught in a strand of barbed wire during clashes with the Bolivarian National Guard in Urena, Venezuela, near the border with Colombia, Feb. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Demonstrators take cover behind a torched bus, during clashes with the Bolivarian National Guard in Urena, Venezuela, near the border with Colombia, Feb. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Colombian police escort a Venezuelan soldier who deserted his post at the Simon Bolivar International Bridge, where Venezuelans tried to deliver humanitarian aid despite objections from President Nicolas Maduro, in Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

This image taken from video shows a fuel tanker, cargo trailers and makeshift fencing, blocking the Tienditas International Bridge in an attempt to stop U.S. humanitarian aid entering from Colombia into Venezuela, as seen from the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 6, 2019. (AP Photo)

People stream in prior to the Venezuela Aid Live concert on the Colombian side of Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela, Feb. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Migrant Xiomara Henriquez Ayala, 13, from El Salvador, peers over the U.S. border fence from Tijuana, Mexico, Feb. 8, 2019, next to Josue Mejia Lucero, 17, and his sister Lucero, 25, both of Honduras, as they look for a way to help Lucero and her son cross in the U.S. undetected. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

People attend a memorial Mass for the 10 teenage victims of a fire at a Brazilian soccer academy, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Feb. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A Monarch butterfly rests on the forehead of a visitor at the Amanalco de Becerra sanctuary, in the mountains near the extinct Nevado de Toluca volcano, in Mexico, Feb. 14, 2019. (AP Photo /Marco Ugarte)

A woman places her hands in prayer on a wooden triangle, between framed images of spiritual healer Joao Teixeira de Faria and Jesus Christ, inside the Casa de Dom Inacio, in Abadiania, Brazil, Jan. 4, 2019. Hundreds of women have accused de Faria of sexual abuse. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

A worker whose are nails painted with the Cohiba motif, prepares tobacco leaves to make cigars at the El Laguito factory, on the sidelines of the Habano Cigar Festival in Havana, Cuba, Feb. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A curtain hangs in the bedroom doorway of slain Jhonny Godoy in La Vega slum of Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 19, 2019. According to his family, two days after proclaiming his opposition to President Nicolas Maduro on Twitter, rifle-wielding special police agents wearing black masks stormed into their home, pulled him outside and shot the 29-year-old to death. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Mercedes Taffarel, mother of Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala, is comfort by Nantes defender Nicolas Pallois during Sala’s burial service at the cemetery in Santa Fe, Argentina, Feb. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A bride and groom kiss while posing for photos at one of several free sets placed for newlyweds to take cell phone photos of themselves, following a mass wedding ceremony on Valentine's Day in Mexico City, Feb. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A fan of Argentina's Talleres soccer team shows off his soccer team related tattoo before attending a Copa Libertadores soccer match against Chile's Palestino in Cordoba, Argentina, Feb. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Nicolas Aguilera)

Helicopters hover over an iron ore mining complex to release thousands of flower petals paying homage to the dozens of victims killed and scores of missing after a mining dam collapsed there, in Brumadinho, Brazil, Feb. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A man looks at wreckage from a helicopter where it crashed into the front of a cargo truck during an emergency landing, on a main highway in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2019. 66-year-old Brazilian television news anchor Ricardo Boechat and the pilot perished in the accident. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Children have lunch in San Antonio de Padua soup kitchen in the Petare slum, in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A crucifix hangs over the belly of 71-year-old Rafael Ricardo, who says he has lost 21 kilos in the last 2 years due to the economic crisis in the country, in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A painting of Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido wearing the presidential sash, hangs from a post at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela, Feb. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido waves flanked by Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales, from left, Colombia's President Ivan Duque and Panama's President Juan Carlos Varela as they gather for a group photo after attending an emergency Lima Group meeting concerning Venezuela, in Bogota, Colombia, Feb. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Neighbors sits next to a campaign mural promoting presidential frontrunner Nayib Bukele, of the Grand National Alliance for Unity, on the outskirts of San Salvador, El Salvador, Feb. 1, 2019. Bukele, a young businessman and former mayor of El Salvador's capital, was elected as El Salvador’s new president. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo

Children carry pictures of murdered community activist Samir Flores Soberanes as they accompany the coffin that contains his remains, in Amilcingo, Mexico, Feb. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Homeless boys strike a pose in front of a road block set ablaze by protesters demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Protesters march past an overturned burning car, as they demand the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Demonstrators drag the body of a fellow protester toward police, as a form of protest after police shot into the crowd in which he died, during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise near the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

A national police officer is helped by fellow officers after she was injured in the face from a rock thrown by protesters demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, near the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Demonstrators run from police who are shooting in their direction, as a car burns during a protest demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Demonstrators drag the body of an unidentified protester toward police, as a form of protest after police shot into the crowd killing the unidentified protester, during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise near the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

A demonstrator stands in the street chanting slogans against President Jovenel Moise during a protest to demand his resignation, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Marco, a Venezuelan man, transports turkeys in a burlap bag, in La Parada, near Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela, Feb. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A man hauls used tires back to Venezuela, using a blind spot on the border near the closed Simon Bolivar International Bridge, in La Parada, Colombia, Feb. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Pro-choice activists in favor of decriminalizing abortion raise green handkerchiefs as they rally outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Tomas F. Cuesta)

A groundskeeper rolls the pitch at the nets prior to a training session of the England cricket team at the Sir Vivian Richards stadium in North Sound, Antigua and Barbuda, Feb. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

From inside a scoreboard, spectators watch day four of the third cricket Test match between England and West Indies at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet, St. Lucia, Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

West Indies' Roston Chase celebrates scoring a century against England during day four of the third cricket Test match at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet, St. Lucia, Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Erik of Brazil's Botafogo celebrates scoring his side's first goal during a Copa Sudamericana soccer match against Argentina's Defensa y Justicia, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on a rainy Feb. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A ball flies past Argentina's Defensa y Justicia goalkeeper Ezequiel Unsain during a Copa Sudamericana soccer match against Brazil's Botafogo, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Feb. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Paraguay's Libertad goalkeeper Martin Silva catches the ball preventing Bolivia's The Strongest Rolando Blackburn from heading the ball during a Copa Libertadores soccer game, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Feb. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, Great Britain's Cameron Norrie returns a ball in his Mexican Tennis Open quarterfinal match against Mackenzie McDonald of the U.S., in Acapulco, Mexico, Feb. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Victor Mendoza of Mexico's Los Charros de Jalisco tags out Alexi Amarista of Venezuela's Cardenales de Lara, on the opening day of the Caribbean Series baseball tournament at Rod Carew stadium in Panama City, Feb. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Panama's Los Toros de Herrera baseball players celebrate their 3-0 victory over Cuba's Los Leneros de las Tunas amid confetti at the end of the Caribbean Series baseball tournament's final, championship game at Rod Carew stadium in Panama City, Feb. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

A man dressed as "Ekeko" competes in a costume contest during the Alasita miniature fair in La Paz, Bolivia, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Veteran cholita wrestler Jennifer Dos Caras, 45, competes in the ring with Randy Four in El Alto, Bolivia, Jan. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Carnival revelers pose for a picture during the Academicos do Baixo Augusta carnival "bloco" parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A reveler in costume laughs during the "Cordao do Boitata" street party in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Feb. 24, 2019, one of the many parades before the official start of Carnival on March 1. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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Edited by photo editor Anita Baca, based in Mexico City.

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