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 October.
A saint statue is engulfed in flames after protesters torched the San Francisco de Borja church, a favorite of Chile's national police force, on the one-year anniversary of the start of mass, anti-government protests over inequality in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
People celebrate after a referendum vote outcome favored replacing Chile’s 40-year-old constitution, written during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, at Plaza Italia in Santiago, Chile, early Oct. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
An injured ocelot that lost part of its leg when it was run over by a car climbs a branch inside its cage at the Mata Ciliar NGO in Jundiai, Brazil, Oct. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
A man utilizes a door as a makeshift raft as he transports a woman through the inundated streets of the Mata Redonda neighborhood of Maracay, Venezuela, Oct. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Jonelson Princeton, 7, who survived cholera as a newborn, peers out from inside his home which was once used as an office, on a former UN base where he lives with his parents and grandmother in Mirebalais, Haiti, Oct. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
A steel framework providing a platform for workers and supports for a planned roof encases the damaged church cupola, during the early stages of reconstruction work at Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles, or Our Lady of Angels church, three years after an earthquake collapsed nearly half of its 18th-century dome in Mexico City, Oct. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
A man wearing a full protection suit sprays disinfectant on two couples in bridal dresses and suits, inside a ballroom after a mock wedding during the partial lifting of restrictions amid the COVID -19 pandemic in La Paz, Bolivia, Oct. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
People surround a sidewalk drawing of Argentina's former President Nestor Kirchner to honor him on the 10-year anniversary of his death at Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Indigenous protesters wash up before marching in Bogota, where they traveled in a caravan from the interior of Colombia, Oct. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Venezuelan migrants rest as they walk towards Bogota, passing through Tunja, Colombia, Oct. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
People visit the graves of their relatives buried at the Valle de Chalco municipal cemetery, some decorated ahead of the Day of the Dead holiday, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Oct. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A pet cat named Actino looks at a Day of the Dead altar with a portrait of his former caretaker, Daniel Silva Montenegro, a doctor who died from symptoms related to COVID-19, at their home in Mexico City, Oct. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)
Police destroy shack homes as they carry out the eviction of a squatters camp in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Oct. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
One of Elena's Suazo's two medical gowns hangs to dry at her parents' home in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sept. 29, 2020, in between her twice-daily trips to care for her hospitalized father in the COVID-19 wing of the Jose Gregorio Hernandez public hospital. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Andres Gomez works inside an amber mine near the community of Jotolchen II in Chiapas state, Mexico, Sept. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Indigenous Quechua musicians take part in celebration festivities after a final official vote count released yesterday declared Luis Arce the winner of the presidential election, in El Alto, Bolivia, Oct. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Palm trees in City Park are silhouetted at dusk after temperatures peaked at 40 degrees Celsius, or 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, in Brasilia, Brazil, Oct. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Workers wearing full protection gear amid the new coronavirus pandemic, lower a coffin into a grave in an area of the San Rafael municipal cemetery set apart for people who have died from COVID-19, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
Pedestrians wearing face masks amid the new coronavirus pandemic walk past a rooster named "Espartaco," or Spartacus, sitting in the middle of a street in Havana, Cuba, Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
A Saint Jude statue is transported in the passenger seat of a car during the annual pilgrimage honoring Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, in Mexico City, Oct. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
A lama lays on the grass at the Machu Picchu archeological site, where only maintenance workers gather while it's closed to the public amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the department of Cusco, Peru, Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Relatives accompany the coffin that contains the remains of Jose Barbaran who is believed to have died from complications related to the new coronavirus, as they travel by boat on Peru's Ucayali River, Sept. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Wheelchair bound migrant Wilmer Chavez, 33, is helped by fellow migrants on to the back of a freight truck that stopped to give the migrants a free ride in Rio Dulce, Guatemala, Oct. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
A firefighter battles flames in Cordoba, Argentina, Oct. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Nicolas Aguilera)
A pianist in a rat costume participates in a recorded Halloween concert by the Bogota and Youth Philharmonic Orchestras at the Colsubsidio Theater in Bogota, Colombia, Oct. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
The bed of the Cerro Lagoon is dry and cracked from an extended drought, holding purple water due to untreated waste from a tannery company, in Limpio, which means "clean," Paraguay, Oct. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
This gallery was curated by photojournalist Dieu Nalio Chery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.