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 July.
Catholic Bishop Ruben Dario Jaramillo Montoya is helped onto a fire truck in Buenaventura, Colombia, Saturday, July 13, 2019. Jaramillo traveled on the fire truck to some of Buenaventura's most crime-ridden neighborhoods on Saturday, sprinkling water that he had blessed in what he called an attempt to thwart drug trafficking gangs and other illegal groups. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A man cries as he holds up a candle on the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, July 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Demonstrators march on Las Americas highway demanding the resignation of governor Ricardo Rossello, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, July 22, 2019. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finance. (AP Photo/Gianfranco Gaglione)
Cristian Riveros poses for a portrait dressed in bird feathers during the St. Francis Solano celebrations in Emboscada, Paraguay, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Riveros has been paying a promise to St. Francis Solano since he recovered from an operation at age 13. St. Francis Solano, who was born in Spain in 1549, died in Peru in 1610. He was canonized in 1726. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
A hooded agronomy student protests outside the hotel where lawmakers are gathered and expected to vote on a deal that Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales' government signed with Washington that would force Salvadoran and Honduran migrants to request asylum in Guatemala instead of the United States, in Guatemala City, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. Critics of the deal point out that Guatemala has the same problems that are driving Hondurans and Salvadorans to flee their homes: violence, poverty, joblessness and a prolonged drought that has severely hurt farmers. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)
A youth stands by the border fence that separates Mexico from the United States, near a makeshift memorial for migrants who have died during their journey toward the U.S., in Tijuana, Mexico, late Saturday, June 29, 2019. On the border fence at right hangs a cartoon depiction of a news photograph of the bodies of Salvadoran migrant Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria, photographed on the banks of the Rio Grande between Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas, after they drowned on Sunday, June 23. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)
A demonstrator with a Puerto Rican flag reacts during clashes in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Thousands of people marched to the governor's residence in San Juan on Wednesday chanting demands for Gov. Ricardo Rossello to resign after the leak of online chats that show him making misogynistic slurs and mocking his constituents. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo)
Cuban cadets board the first train using new equipment from China, in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, July 13, 2019. The first train using new equipment from China pulled out of Havana Saturday, hauling passengers on the start of a 915-kilometer (516-mile) journey to the eastern end of the island as the government tries to overhaul the country's aging and decrepit rail system. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Relatives mourn at the burial service for Mery Vila, who was killed by her partner, striking her several times on the head with a hammer, in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, July 11, 2019. Vila is one of 69 femicides reported in Bolivia since January, the highest in six years in the same period. The alarmingly high number in a country with South America's highest femicide rate has prompted the Women Affairs Commission to call an emergency meeting to allocate more resources for the fight against gender-based violence. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Salvadoran teen migrant Milagro de Jesus Henriquez Ayala nuzzles with her newborn son Alexander, at the Agape World Mission shelter, in Tijuana, Mexico, June 12, 2019. Henriquez Ayala has finished the paperwork for a Mexican visa and is determined to build a life on the south side of the U.S.-Mexico border, though the lanky girl has no idea how she'll do that. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)
Nicole Diaz wears special effects make-up with hurricane Maria's death toll number written on her forehead, while protesting against Governor Ricardo Rossello, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 19, 2019. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finance. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
Brazil's coach Tite is thrown in the air by players to celebrate their 3-1 victory over Peru at the end of the final Copa America soccer match at Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Arthur Zanetti of Brazil performs on the rings during the men's gymnastics qualification and team final at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Sunday, July 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Yenni Sinisterra of Colombia celebrates after lifting 94 kg during the snatch women's weightlifting 55 kg event at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Sunday, July 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Brazil's goalkeeper Alison blocks the penalty kick by Paraguay's Gustavo Gomez during a Copa America quarterfinal soccer match at the Arena do Gremio in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Brazil won the Copa America. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
Argentina's Lionel Messi, center left, and Chile's Gary Medel, center right, scuffle as referee Mario Diaz, from Paraguay, left, shows the red card to both of them during Copa America third-place soccer match at the Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, July 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Gaston Reniero of Argentina's San Lorenzo, right, fights for the ball with Fernando Amorebieta of Paraguay's Cerro Porteno during a Copa Libertadores soccer game in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
Brazil's Richarlison celebrates after scoring his side's third goal against Peru during the final soccer match of the Copa America at Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazil won 3-1, Sunday, July 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
Luisa Jaramillo, of Colombia, competes in the women's tricks waterski final at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Monday, July 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
This photo distributed by Mexico’s Secretary of Ecology and the Environment (SEMA) in Quintana Roo state shows a fire burning in the Sian Ka'an nature reserve on the Yucatan peninsula, near Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Mexico, Sunday, July 14, 2019. The civil protection coordinator for the state of Quintana Roo said Sunday the fire has already consumed 600 hectares (1,500 acres) of brush and other plants. (SEMA via AP)
Trucks and debris lie scattered after a deadly explosion of propane gas cylinders at a depot in Mejicanos, El Salvador, Friday, July 12, 2019. Defense Minister Rene Merino visiting the site said that early indications suggested the explosion was accidental, but that authorities are still investigating any possible connection to terrorism by the gangs. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
Homeless people sleep under a bridge in front of a mural depicting U.S. President Donald Trump as a puppeteer manipulating Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, July 23, 2019. Bolsonaro said last week that severe hunger is not a problem for the country. He acknowledged that things could "go bad" and people might "not eat well." But, he added: "To speak of starving in Brazil is a big lie." (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)
Family members attend a burial service for an inmate who was killed in a prison riot, in Altamaria, Brazil, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. At least 57 prisoners were killed by other inmates during clashes between organized crime groups in the Altamira prison in northern Brazil Monday with 16 of the victims being decapitated, according to prison officials. (AP Photo/Raimundo Pacco)
Reynol Alamino Ortega cries next to the body of his cousin, Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, during his wake inside the Cathedral in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, July 27, 2019. Ortega, a sugar worker's son who oversaw the first papal visit to Cuba, helped lower barriers to believers in the communist country and played a role in mediating improved U.S.-Cuba ties, died Friday at age 82. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)
Revelers take part in the annual Gay Pride parade in Guatemala City's historical center, July 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
The graves where a number of inmates that where killed in a recent prison riot are to buried, are reflected on the sun glasses of a cemetery employee, in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. At least 58 prisoners were killed by other inmates during clashes between organized crime groups in the Altamira prison in northern Brazil Monday with 16 of the victims being decapitated, according to prison officials. (AP Photo/Raimundo Pacco)
Edited by AP photojournalist Jorge Saenz based in Asuncion, Paraguay.
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