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 March.
A woman wears a snorkel mask and a surgical face mask as a precaution amid the spread of the new coronavirus while shopping at a market in Lima, Peru, March 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A passenger walks through an empty terminal at Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 23, 2020, as most flights are canceled to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
A man washes metro car as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus in Mexico City, March 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
A Guarani Mbya indigenous woman smokes a pipe while waiting for police to enter the property her community has been occupying in an attempt to stop real estate developer Tenda from constructing apartment buildings next to their land in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Seen through a web of electric wires, a senior citizen peers from his window in the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 20, 2020, as many people stay indoors to avoid getting the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
The relative of an inmate cries outside La Modelo jail in Bogota, Colombia, March 22, 2020. Violence broke out in the prison out of inmates' fears that authorities are not doing enough to prevent coronavirus inside overcrowded prisons. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
Student desks sit in the shade next to the parking lot of the closed Francisco Beckman high school, where a professor who died of the coronavirus worked, on the outskirts of Panama City, March 12, 2020, on the first day that schools closed nation-wide. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
A police officer stands behind her riot shield covered in red paint during an International Women's Day march in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, March 8, 2020. Protests against gender violence in Mexico have intensified in recent years amid an increase in killings of women and girls. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
A player on Haiti's amputee women's soccer team gets lost in thought before the start of a match with the Dominican Republic, to mark International Women's Day, in the Petion-Ville suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 8, 2020. Haiti won 2-0. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
People stand in designated areas, to practice social distancing amid the spread of the new coronavirus, as they line up for free food staples at Santa Ana primary school in Asuncion, Paraguay, March 31, 2020, part of an already existing food program through the Education Ministry. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
A taxi driver, wearing a protective mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, drives his American classic car with tourists in Havana, Cuba, March 13, 2020. (AP Photo / Ramon Espinosa)
People take part in a street performance to protest President Sebastian Pinera's second year in office, outside La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Military armored vehicles patrol El Alto, Bolivia, March 20, 2020, during a quarantine from 5pm to 5am in an attempt to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
David Vazquez, a street performer dressed as the Joker, waits in hopes of pedestrians who will pay to take pictures with him in Mexico City, March 23, 2020. Vazquez, who also worked as a trainer in a gym until it shut down today, said business for street performers has plummeted, with the few clients still stopping opting to take their pictures from a distance or posing beside him awkwardly, amid the worldwide spread of the new coronavirus. "We have to pay rent, light, gas, telephone," said Vazquez. "Where will we get that money? We all want to work." (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Police detain two street vendors to evict them from the train station in Santiago, Chile, March 20, 2020. The city government has ordered businesses to close and street vendors are not allowed to circulate, as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
A boy peaks from the dilapidated doorway of his home as his mother receives soap and detergent from volunteers as an effort to avoid the spread of the new coronavirus, in the Rocinha slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
An actress walks amid red shoes representing murdered women during a performance on International Women's Day, coined "A Day Without Women" in Mexico City, March 9, 2020. Women across Mexico went on strike to protest rampant gender violence. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
The shadow of Fito, a six-month-old giraffe born in captivity, stands inside his enclosure at La Aurora Zoo which is closed amid measures to contain the spread of the new coronavirus in Guatemala City, March 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Boca Juniors' Carlos Tevez, left, kisses Gimnasia y Esgrima 's coach Diego Maradona prior to an Argentina's soccer league match at La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Peru's Alianza Lima and Argentina's Racing Club play a Copa Libertadores soccer match in an empty Presidente Peron stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 12, 2020, closed to fans to help contain the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
Opposition protesters clash with police blocking their march in Caracas, Venezuela, March 10, 2020. U.S.-backed Venezuelan political leader Juan Guaido is leading a march aimed at retaking the National Assembly legislative building, which opposition lawmakers have been blocked from entering. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Women wear face masks and gloves as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, in Quito, Ecuador, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Cinderblock homes fill the hills Catia, a neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, March 20, 2020, during a government imposed quarantine to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A supermarket cashier waits for costumers behind a plastic curtain as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Edited by photojournalist Ariana Cubillos based in Caracas, Venezuela.