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 January.

Street artist Wolfgang Salazar works on his mural featuring Venezuelan athlete Yulimar Rojas in the Boleita neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Roving musicians "Los Compas" serenade a couple on the shore of Mamitas beach amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Jan. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Maria Amelia, right, hugs her niece Flaviana Silva through a plastic barrier as a precaution at the Casa Clara home for the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Jose Sand of Argentina's Lanus, center, celebrates with teammates after scoring his side's opening goal against Argentina's Velez Sarsfield at a Copa Sudamericana semifinal first leg soccer match at Jose Amalfitani stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, Pool)

Boats sit idle as a fisherman, standing bottom center, prepares to go out to the Bay of Asuncion, Paraguay, Jan. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

A patient is moved into a COVID-19 treatment center at Dr. Carlos MacGregor Sanchez General Hospital in Mexico City, Jan. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Aymara Indigenous women wait to enter the archaeological museum to see the presentation of ancient vessels unearthed in a dig on the site once home to one of the most significant pre-Hispanic empires, the Tiwanacota, in Tiwanaku, Bolivia, Jan. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

A penguin swims in an enclosure for Gentoo and chinstrap penguins at Inbursa Aquarium in Mexico City, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Government doctors put on protective gowns as they prepare to give free, rapid COVID-19 tests to volunteers in the El Paraiso neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

An armed woman who goes by the nickname "La Chola," and is a member of a female-led, self-defense group, patrols the edge of her town of El Terrero, where it shares a border with the town of Aguililla, in Michoacan state, Mexico, Jan. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Armando Solis)

A health worker stands in front of an empty oxygen tank station, the only station at Joventina Dias Hospital, a small clinic in Manaus, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Residents watch a forest fire move closer in Quilpue, Chile, Jan. 15, 2021. (Andres Pina/Aton Chile via AP)

People run past a a barricade set fire by protesters demanding President Jovenel Moise resign in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 15, 2021 (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Vendor Daniel Torres Bazan poses for a portrait under one of his mosquito nets for sale at the Mesa Redonda Market in Lima, Peru, Oct. 20, 2020, published in Jan. 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Honduran migrants try to push past Guatemalan soldiers in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, Jan. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian)

Injured Honduran migrant women with children cry on the side of a highway after clashing with Guatemalan security forces in Vado Hondo, Guatemala, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021, as they try to reach the U.S. by foot. (AP Photo/Sandra Sebastian)

Zelia de Carvalho Morley, a 106-year-old who lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, gestures before getting a shot of China's Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine COVID-19 at the retirement home where she lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, fourth from right, flanked by Vice President Hamilton Mourao, left, and Defense Minister Fernando Azevedo, attend a ceremony for the Air Force’s 80th anniversary in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

A boy prepares to playfully drench a friend with a water in the Amparo neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 21, 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Funeral workers carry the coffin 80-year-old COVID-19 victim Pedro Miguel Infante Vilchez to the "Martires 19 de Julio" cemetery in Comas on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Jan. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Models wear creations by Haitian designer Mackenley Darius during a fashion show promoting Haitian culture, in particular the Voodoo religion in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

A family member watches funeral workers remove the body of Amelia Dias Nascimento, 94, who died from complications related to COVID-19 at home in Manaus, Amazonas state, Jan. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Relatives and friends of Sara Maria Garcia, one of five youths killed by unidentified gunmen two days prior, mourn during her funeral in Buga, Colombia, Jan. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Juan B. Diaz)

Elena Ruiz, 53, breathes in oxygen as part of her recovery treatment for COVID-19 as her son Antony watches over her in Lima, Peru, Jan. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A Venezuelan migrant child cries on his suitcase after his family was detained at a checkpoint in Tumbes, Peru, Jan. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Brazil's Palmeiras celebrate their 1-0 victory over Brazil's Santos to clench the Copa Libertadores title at Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A horse is wrapped in plastic on a merry-go-round at a park open for business during the COVID-19 pandemic in Montevideo, Uruguay, Jan. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

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This gallery was edited by AP visual journalist Victor Caivano in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  

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