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.

Jimmy Cherizier, aka Barbecue, a former policeman who leads the G9 gang coalition, sits on a pile of garbage to call attention to the conditions people live in as he leads a march against kidnapping and for better conditions for the poor, through La Saline neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A Franciscan monk blesses a pet cat during a Mass in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, considered the protector of animals, on the saint’s feast day in Brasilia, Brazil, Oct. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

A migrant holds up a cross at the front of a migrant group leaving Huixtla by foot in Chiapas state, Mexico, Oct. 27, 2021, continuing their trek north toward Mexico's northern states and the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Julieres hugs the coffin of her 4-year-old son Joshue during his funeral service in Caracas, Venezuela, Oct 27, 2021. Joshue was on a list for a bone marrow transplant. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

An Aymara Indigenous woman models a creation by a local designer at a Chola fashion show in La Paz, Bolivia, Oct. 14, 2021. The fashion show is designed to promote the Andean style and beauty of Aymara women, who are commonly called Cholitas in Bolivian slang. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

A girl carries a boom box playing music amid a crowd waiting to buy low cost cooking gas sold by the Petrobras Oil Tankers Union in the Vila Vintem favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 28, 2021. Soaring prices for gas, meat, electricity and more have left poor Brazilians struggling to make ends meet, as inflation reaches double digits. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Adriana, 50, poses for the photo while walking in the Bel- Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Children jump rope in the Ache Indigenous town of Puerto Barra during celebrations marking the town's 45th anniversary, in the Alto Parana department of Paraguay, Oct. 24, 2021. The town's original inhabitants left their jungle community, Naranjal, in the 1970s to start a new settlement on 850 hectares (2,100 acres) of land donated by a group of U.S. Christians. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

A volunteer dressed as Spiderman embraces a child in the Jardim Gramacho favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 30, 2021, during a food kit delivery donated by the non-governmental organization "Covid Sem Fome" that works to fight hunger. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Motorycyclists crowd a gas station in hopes of filling up their tanks during a national fuel shortage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Migrants walk under the rain along a highway from Acacoyahua to Uluapan, Chiapas state, on Mexico’s southern border, Oct. 29, 2021, as they continue their journey north toward the U.S. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Police advance on anti-government protesters angry with the rise in gas prices in Saquisili, Ecuador, Oct. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

A fisherman stands on a boat in Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta marsh in Nueva Venecia, Colombia, Oct. 12, 2021. About 400 families live in stilt houses in the Cienaga Grande, the largest of the swampy marshes located in Colombia between the Magdalena River and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A porter pushes a loaded cart from the Croix de Bossales food market in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

People pray by a burning offering of sugar, flowers and candles outside the chapel of folk Saint Maximon, an Indigenous person who is a syncretism of a Mayan and Saint Judas Thaddeus, on the feast day of both men, in San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

A protester takes a selfie at a burning barricade set by protesters angry over lack of security in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Brazilian and U.S. researchers conduct an artificial insemination procedure on a jaguar at the Mata Ciliar Association conservation center in Jundiai, Brazil, Oct. 28, 2021. According to the environmental organization, the fertility program intends to develop a reproduction system to be tested on captive jaguars and later bring it to wild felines whose habitats are increasingly under threat from fires and deforestation. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Maribel Vilca slips a dried sheepskin into a bag at her home in Jochi San Francisco, Peru, Oct. 29, 2021. Vilca said she will not be vaccinated for COVID-19 because she does not trust doctors. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Followers of Maria Lionza's cult practice a ritual at Sorte Mountain in Venezuela's Yaracuy state, early Oct. 12, 2021, one year after the annual pilgrimage was cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions. Along with Santeria, Venezuela is home to other folk religions, such as the sect surrounding the Indian goddess Maria Lionza, an Indigenous woman who according to tradition was born on Sorte Mountain. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

People in Halloween costumes travel on the subway in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A cut and dried up tree trunk stands on the lakeshore of the abandoned Villa Epecuen, Argentina, Oct. 8, 2021. The Argentine spa town was a mecca of tourism for much of the 20th century, until the lake poured through a broken embankment in 1985 and destroyed hotels, restaurants and other buildings. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

A migrant naps on a bed of rocks on the bank of the Huixtla River in Chiapas state, Mexico, Oct. 26, 2021, on a day of rest during a migrant caravan heading north to the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

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Lead photo: A healthcare worker places an intravenous line in the arm of a baby, illuminated by a cellphone flashlight at the La Paix Hospital, amid severe fuel shortages in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Edited by Silvia Izquierdo, AP photojournalist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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