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.

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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