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 August.

Andres Palomino Gallardo travels in his cart pulled by a goat along the roads of El Infernal neighborhood in San Andres in the province of Pinar del Río, Cuba, Aug. 24, 2019. Gallardo uses his cart to make deliveries. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Krimej indigenous Chief Kadjyre Kayapo, of the Kayapo indigenous community, looks out at a path created by loggers on the border between the Biological Reserve Serra do Cachimbo, front, and Menkragnotire indigenous lands, in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Aug. 31, 2019. Much of the deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is done illegally -- land grabbers burn areas to clear land for agriculture and loggers encroach on national forests and indigenous reserves, and Kayapo says he does not want loggers and prospectors on his land. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Electoral workers wait for people to cast their votes in Chinautla, on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Aug. 11, 2019. Guatemalans go the polls Sunday in the second-round presidential runoff, pitting ex-first lady Sandra Torres against conservative Alejandro Giammattei in a nation beset by poverty, unemployment and emigration. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

A lush forest sits next to a field of charred trees in Vila Nova Samuel, Brazil, Aug. 27, 2019. The current fires in the Amazon were set by those who are clearing the forest for cattle ranching and crops. About 60% of the Amazon rainforest is in Brazil. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

A dancer from the Bolivian "Morenada de Oruro" folklore group performs during parade in honor of Our Lady of Urkupina on her feast day, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Aug. 25, 2019. About 2,000 Bolivians live in Paraguay, most of them working as merchants. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

The 500-year-old mummy of an Incan girl sits inside a vault at the National Museum of Archaeology in La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 15, 2019. Nicknamed Nusta, a Quechua word for “Princess,” the mummy recently returned to its native Bolivia 129 years after it was donated to the Michigan State University museum in 1890. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

A girl holds on to the ropes of a swimming pool created in the bed of a tractor trailer in El Infernal neighborhood of San Andres, in Cuba's province Pinar del Río, on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019. In a neighborhood far from recreation centers, community members helped to make the idea of the tractor pool a reality, lending tarps, providing water and paying for the tractor's gasoline. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A vendor sells Mexican flags and items in the flag's colors ahead of upcoming Independence Day celebrations, in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz state, Mexico, Aug. 30, 2019. Mexico's drug war appears to be back, and it may be worse this time around than in the bloody years of the government's 2006-2012 offensive against drug cartels. That was evident this week in Coatzacoalcos, an oil industry city in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz where residents say gangs have been fighting over turf and extorting business owners with threats of violence. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's triple jump final, setting a new Pan American record, during the athletics at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Aug. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A dead capybara lays on the side of the highway in Altamira, Para state, one of the states affected by the blazes that in the last weeks have been hitting the Amazon region of Brazil, Aug. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

An armed man who took dozens of hostages on a bus, stands moments before he was shot dead by police following a four-hour standoff on the bridge connecting the city of Niteroi to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Cassiano/Agencia O Dia)

Government supporters gather for a rally to protest against economic sanctions imposed by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 10, 2019. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro called for a worldwide protest Saturday targeting the Trump administration's recent escalation of tension by freezing the South American nation's assets. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Andres Uran and Estefania Arango, from Colombia, compete in the Stage category final at the annual Tango Dance World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

National police clash with protesters looking to help for a boy overcome by tear gas outside the Parliament building, after protesters tried to break past a police barricade in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 21, 2019. Lawmakers are debating whether or not to start impeachment proceedings for Haitian President Jovenel Moise. Ongoing demonstrations are demanding that Moise resign over corruption allegations. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Anne-Elizabeth Stone of the U.S. screams in celebration as she wins the gold medal in her women's sabre individual fencing final bout against Argentina's Maria Perez at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Aug. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mary Gordon of Puerto Rico falls as she tries to catch the ball during the women's softball semifinals against Mexico at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, Aug. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Venezuelan Yeslie Aranda, 57, walks on Route 3 between Tolhuin and Ushuaia, Argentina, Aug. 17, 2019. Aranda left his hometown of San Cristobal in the southeastern state of Táchira last year with a backpack, $30 in his pocket and an aluminum prosthesis that enabled him to negotiate the continent’s rugged roads. (AP Photo/Luján Agusti)

Vanessa Galindo Blas, second right, embraces one of the couple's three children, as family members comfort each other during the burial of her husband Erick Hernandez Enriquez, also known as DJ Bengala, who was killed in an attack on the White Horse nightclub where he was DJ'ing, at the municipal cemetery in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz state, Mexico, Aug. 29, 2019. At least seven of the more than two dozen victims were laid to rest in the municipal cemetery Thursday afternoon, in overlapping burials two days after gang members blocked the club's exits and set it on fire.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Marines are silhouetted against a raging fire in the Chiquitania Forest in Santa Rosa de Tucabaca, on the outskirts of Robore, Bolivia, Aug. 28, 2019. While some of the fires are burning in Bolivia's share of the Amazon, the largest blazes were in the Chiquitanía region of southeastern Bolivia. It's zone of dry forest, farmland and open prairies that has seen an expansion of farming and ranching in recent years. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

India's Hanuma Vihari leaves the pitch, dismissed for 93 runs, during day four of the first Test cricket match against West Indies at the Sir Vivian Richards cricket ground in North Sound, Antigua and Barbuda, Aug. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Two women attack a male commuter, one spraying him in the face with paint another kicking him, at a bus station, during a protest sparked by a string of alleged sexual attacks by police officers, in Mexico City, Aug. 16, 2019. On Friday, hundreds of women demonstrated largely peacefully in downtown Mexico City with pink spray paint and smoke. But some protesters trashed the nearby bus station. This week, an auxiliary policeman was held for trial on charges he raped a young female employee at a city museum. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Charred trees stand after a forest fire in the Vila Nova Samuel region, along the road to the Jacunda National Forest near the city of Porto Velho, Rondonia state, part of Brazil's Amazon, Aug. 25, 2019. Leaders of the Group of Seven nations said Sunday they were preparing to help Brazil fight the fires burning across the Amazon rainforest and repair the damage even as tens of thousands of soldiers were being deployed to fight the blazes that have caused global alarm. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Tourist Loren Fantasia from Baltimore, swings on the beach before the arrival of Hurricane Dorian, in Freeport, Bahamas, Aug. 30, 2019. Forecasters said the hurricane is expected to keep on strengthening and become a Category 3 later in the day. (AP Photo / Ramon Espinosa)

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Edited by AP photojournalist Ariana Cubillos based in Caracas, Venezuela