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 July.

The body of Cesar Gallardo lies covered by a blanket on a playground in the Villa Nueva Esperanza neighborhood of San Bernardo, on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Gallardo was a homeless man welcomed a month ago by residents who organized outdoor soup kitchens for hundreds daily, where he ate. His death, by unknown causes, has worried neighbors that he might have contracted and died of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

The Arevalo-Robledo family, dressed as The Simpsons, poses for a photo in their living room during a government-ordered lockdown to curb the spread of the new coronavirus in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, June 27, 2020. Mariano Arevalo is Homer, Mariel Robledo is Marge, Federico Garozzo is Bart, Julieta is Lisa and Camila Arevalo is Maggie. This family said every day of lockdown started to look the same, so they decided every Saturday to dress in different costumes to combat boredom and put some humor into their lives. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A man arrives by bus to a protest against gay rights in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 26, 2020. The group marched demanding President Jovenel Moise rescind his most recent decree that rewrites the 185-year-old penal code, recognizing same-sex unions and tacitly allowing homosexuality. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

A patient waves goodbye to otherw as he leaves the ICU for COVID-19 after recuperating enough to be moved to another area at Alberto Sabogal Hospital in Lima, Peru, July 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A mural depicts a design based on the eyes of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Independence Day in Caracas Caracas, Venezuela, July 5, 2020. Venezuela marked 209 years of independence from Spain. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Natacha Cardona holds her cat outside her shack home built on occupied land in Caracas, Venezuela, July 7, 2020. Cardona lives with her mother and two sisters, all of whom are without work amid the COVID-19 shutdown and depend on donations to eat. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Healthcare workers lift a man who was lying on the ground outside the General Hospital into a wheelchair to be taken to the emergency room that treats people suspected of having COVID-19 in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, July 23, 2020. Police in Bolivia's major cities have recovered the bodies of hundreds of suspected victims of the coronavirus from homes, vehicles, and in some instances, the streets. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

An empty, parked bus burns on Belascoain Street in Havana, Cuba, July 29, 2020. Neither residents nor police at the scene knew how the blaze started. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

Anderson de Souza pays the part of clown Batatinha at the Estoril Circus’ drive-in show amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Itaguai, in greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Girls wearing face shields as a preventive measure against the new coronavirus wait for their parents to enter the zoo on the outskirts of Quito, in Guayllabamba, Ecuador, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. The zoo is reopening but with strict new social distancing protocols for visitors due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Fishermen, wearing protective face masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, fish in the Paraguay River in Asuncion, Saturday, July 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Peruvian migrant Jose Collantes cries as he watches cemetery workers bury his wife Silvia Cano, who died of COVID-19 complications according to Collantes, at a Catholic cemetery in Santiago, Chile, Friday, July 3, 2020. Collantes said he preferred to cremate her in order to take the ashes home with him, but due to bureaucracy had already been waiting two weeks. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

The sons of former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, Ricardo Martinelli Linares, right, and his brother Luis Enrique stand inside a holding cell at the court building in Guatemala City, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. The brothers were detained Monday on an international warrant from Interpol on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Feridia Rojas, a retired nurse, wears a cardboard box as a protective measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. The 82-year-old pensioner shuffles through the streets of Havana on shopping excursions wearing the cardboard box with a handwritten message that reads in Spanish, "I'm home." (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

People exercise inside a gym with its floor marked for social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, July 13, 2020. Gyms are allowed to re-open Monday after over three months of lockdown but are required to enforce social distancing measures and reduce operating hours. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Ximena Canejo Hernandez, who turns 15 on July 13, is reflected in a mirror as the saleswoman talks to her parents about the quality of the Quinceanera dress she has chosen in central Mexico City, Friday, July 10, 2020. Ximena's family, wanting to give her a traditional Quinceanera, had booked a church and event hall for July 18 long before the coronavirus pandemic hit, but the celebration has been rescheduled for late November. They made their first foray outside their neighborhood in four months on Friday, to go for the dress fitting in the recently reopened downtown commercial district. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Gerardo Ixcoy teaches 12-year-old student Paola Ximena Conoz about fractions from his mobile classroom, parked just outside the door to her home in Santa Cruz del Quiche, Guatemala, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Each day the 27-year-old sets out pedaling among the cornfields of Santa Cruz del Quiche to give individual instruction to his sixth-grade students. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Men play soccer at a local club, Play Futbol 5, in Pergamino, Argentina, Wednesday, July 1, 2020. In order to continue playing amid government restrictions to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, the club divided its soccer field into 12 rectangles to mark limited areas for each player, keeping them from making physical contact. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Inmates protest on the roof of a San Sebastian prison, asking for better medical attention amid the pandemic and to be given the results from previously administered COVID-19 tests, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Monday, July 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Dico Solis)

A worker wearing a mask and face shield to curb the spread of the new coronavirus carries goods in a street market downtown in Lima, Peru, Friday, July 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A bolt of lightning strikes during a storm in Mexico City, Saturday, July 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Dogs stand on a mattress hauled on a cart by a recycler in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, July 23, 2020, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. As COVID-19 cases in Colombia continue to climb, the mayor of Bogota has imposed social distancing measures. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Richard Santos and his partner Lia kiss in their bedroom in the squat known as Casa Nem, occupied by members of the LGBTQ community who are in self-quarantine amid the new coronavirus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 23, 2020. Several years ago Casa Nem became a shelter for LGBTQ victims of violence and those who, rejected by their families, have nowhere to live. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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This gallery was curated by Photo Editor Leslie Mazoch in Mexico City.