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 May.

SOS Funeral workers transport by boat a coffin carrying the body of an 86-year-old woman who lived by the Negro River and is a suspected to have died of COVID-19, near Manaus, Brazil, Thursday, May 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Crosses mark the graves of those who have passed away since early April, filling a new section of the Nossa Senhora Aparecida public cemetery amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Manaus, Brazil, Sunday, May 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

A patient, who died from the new coronavirus, lies on a table between other COVID-19 patients in a room at the Salgado Filho Municipal Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early Sunday, May 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

80-year-old Dominga Aduviri, sits with her hands folded while talking to her "adopted" grandson Wilmer Gutierrez, in her home in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Some Bolivians are "adopting" a grandparent to make life a little easier for those most vulnerable amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Patients testing positive for COVID-19 breathe in oxygen in the emergency area of the Guillermo Almenara hospital in Lima, Peru, Friday, May 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A woman looks at her smart phone outside of her home in the San Agustin neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, May 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Security forces guard the shore area and a boat in which authorities claim a group of armed men landed in the port city of La Guaira, Venezuela, Sunday, May 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A worker from the city's forensic department sprays disinfectant over the body of a woman who died on a street in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, May 14, 2020. Forensic workers at the scene conducted a COVID-19 rapid test and said the woman tested negative. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

A woman walks past wearing a face shield during a government-ordered lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, in the Villa 31 neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, May 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A man on crutches stands within a designated circle used as a measure to help shoppers maintain a safe social distance between each other as they wait in line at La Vega market, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, May 16, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Pedestrians wearing protective face masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, walk by one of Xu Hongfei’s “Fat Ladies” sculptures that someone adorned with a mask to promote social distancing, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Venezuelans Luis Zerpa, from left, Luis Brito and Jhoan Faneite, carry a body bag that contains the remains of 51-year-old Marcos Espinoza who is suspected to have died of the new coronavirus, down a steep hill to a waiting hearse in a working-class neighborhood near Pachacamac, the site of an Inca temple, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Friday, May 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A man wearing a protective face mask against the spread of new coronavirus and a cardboard house on his head with text that reads in Spanish "Stay home," walks on the seafront in Montevideo, Uruguay, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

A health worker takes a sample from a vendor to test for COVID-19 at La Terminal market in Guatemala City, Thursday, May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

An elderly woman, wearing a make-do protective face mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, waits to receive a free meal at a church in The Cemetery neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, May 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A cemetery worker shovels dirt into a grave that contains the remains of Apolonia Uanampa who died from the new coronavirus, as the coffin that contains the remains of Demetria Huamani, also a victim of the virus, is carried to her burial site at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, May 27, 2020.Ê(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A teacher wearing disposable gloves as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, corrects a student's homework at the "Fe y Alegria," or Faith and Happiness school, closed to in-class instruction due to the government lockdown in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Workers wearing protective gear carry the plastic-wrapped coffin of a person who died from COVID-19 into the crematorium at San Cristobal Mausoleums in Ecatepec, Mexico State, part of the Mexico City metropolitan area, Thursday, May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A family peers from the window of their home as they wait to receive boxes of free food, during a lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, May 4, 2020. The U.N. World Food Program is warning that upward of at least 14 million people could go hungry in Latin America as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, shuttering people in their homes, drying up work and crippling the economy. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A crematorium employee stands in front of a pile of discarded coffins that contained the remains of people who died from COVID-19, in the Mexico City borough of Xochimilco, Monday, May 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Guillermina de Figueredo, 72, wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, carries recycled newspapers on her head which she sells to merchants who use them as wrappers, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Rodolfo Gomez, center, and his employees demonstrate how their design of a cardboard box can serve as both a hospital bed and a coffin, designed for COVID-19 patients, in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, May 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Coordinator Oscar Becerril decontaminates fellow paramedic Cesar Avila after going out on a night call to pick up a COVID-19 patient, at their base Troya in Iztapalapa, a Mexico City borough, Saturday, May 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A family watches a movie from the back of their car at a drive-in movie theater where drivers must leave one space empty between them amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, May 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

The Portuguese word "Hunger" is projected over the Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue amid the new coronavirus outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, May 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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This gallery was curated by staff photographer Moises Castillo in Guatemala City.

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