Latin America & Caribbean in Review

This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Latin America and Caribbean during the month of April.

Fabian Ramirez, 11, scavenges a trash container for vegetables with his family at the "Mercado de Abasto," a market for vendors, during the fourth week of a quarantine to help contain the spread of the new coronavirus in Asuncion, Paraguay, Thursday, April 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Zookeeper Edilberto Quevedo watches a spectacled bear after placing food at the Santacruz Zoo which is closed amid a lockdown to help contain the spread of the new coronavirus in San Antonio, near Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The zoo depends on daily ticket sales to feed the animals, and with no money coming in except for a contribution from local government that only covers one week of upkeep, zookeepers are scrambling the find donations of money and food to keep the animals healthy. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Inmates crowd around the corpses of other inmates during a riot at Miguel Castro Castro prison in Lima, Peru, Monday, April 27, 2020. Peru's prison agency reported that three prisoners died from causes still under investigation after a riot at the prison. Inmates complain authorities are not doing enough to prevent the spread of coronavirus inside the prison. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A blind man and his musical partner wear masks to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus as they play for tips in downtown Quito, Ecuador, Friday, April 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Relatives gather around the body of Raimundo Costa do Nascimento, 86, who died at home amid the new coronavirus pandemic in the Sao Jorge neighborhood in Manaus, Brazil, Thursday, April 30, 2020. According to the family Costa do Nascimento died of pneumonia, and they had to wait 10 hours for funerary services to come pick up his body. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

A child looks at the camera as Haitians who were deported from the U.S. line up at a hotel where they will be quarantined as a measure against the spread of the new coronavirus in Tabarre, Haiti, Thursday, April 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

This photo released by the El Salvador presidencial press office shows inmates lined up during a security operation to search their cells, under the watch of police at the Izalco prison in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, April 25, 2020. (El Salvador President Press Office via AP)

A clown wearing a decorative face mask as a precaution amid the spread of the new coronavirus protests with other clowns against restrictions keeping them from working in the streets of Mexico City, Thursday, April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Family members watch as the body of Carmen Valeria, 76, who they suspect died from COVID-19, is placed in a niche at the Iraja cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A man wearing a mask walks alongside a mural of Ernesto "Che" Guevara as other pedestrians are reflected in the side-view mirror of a car in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

City workers fumigate a street to help contain the spread of COVID-19 in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, April 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Piñatas depicting the new coronavirus are displayed in a store at Colon park in Guatemala City, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. The piñatas sell for about $1.50 depending on the size. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

The graves of those who have died during the previous weeks fill the Vila Formosa cemetery, during the new coronavirus pandemic in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Medical workers in protective gear peer into a car to check if commuters have COVID-19 symptoms in Guarulhos on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, March 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Day laborers and informal workers who usually eke a living in the capital evade a police blockade, looking for a different route home, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Saturday, April 18, 2020. Strict quarantine rules amid the new coronavirus pandemic prohibit inter-province travel, and workers living on the side of the road for days are blocked by police from returning home. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A member of National Circus Foundation of Venezuela, wearing a mask as a measure to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, takes part in a streamed performance of the Caracas International Theater Festival Preface, at the National Theatre in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, April 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Vechicles transport coffins containing the remains of people who are believed to have died from complications related to the new coronavirus, to a cemetery in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Saturday, April 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Luis Perez)

Yolanda Avila watches over her niece Sofia, a first grader, doing homework in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. With schools shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, students who have internet and a tablet can receive instruction online, a challenge in Venezuela where the internet is spotty and many do not have tablets or laptops. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A youth waits for his turn to enter the San Nicolas Tolentino cemetery for the funeral of his loved one in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Thursday, April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A cemetery worker stands over the remains of Edenir Rezende Bessa, who is suspected of dying of COVID-19, as relatives attend her burial in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. After visiting 3 primary care health units, she was accepted in a hospital that treats new coronavirus cases, where she died on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A city worker sprays disinfectant to help contain the spread of the new coronavirus near a man sleeping in the Plaza de Armas in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, April 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Carmen Castellanos, 54, wears a face mask and shield behind a protective sheet of plastic hanging over the counter, at El Foquito, a hardware and electric supply store she owns with her brother in Mexico City, Wednesday, April 15, 2020. The Castellanos family used their hardware skills and supplies to hand-make more than 100 face shields they donated to medical staff at two hospitals. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

City workers disinfect a bus stop to help prevent the spread of new coronavirus outside a closed cinema featuring a mural of film directors, from left, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel and Lucrecia Martel in Montevideo, Uruguay, just after midnight on Monday, April 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

An elderly woman lies inside an ambulance while evacuated from a nursing home where multiple residents tested positive for the new coronavirus in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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Edited by Fernando Vergara, AP photojournalist based in Bogota, Colombia