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 May.

COVID-19 patient Eustaquio Ruiz lies on a stretcher outside the ICU of the Ineram Hospital, the fourth clinic where he was taken in search of a hospital with room in Asuncion, Paraguay, May 24, 2021. The 46-year-old was put back into the ambulance to search for a fifth hospital. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Police spray a water cannon at demonstrators during anti-government protests triggered by government proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages and pensions in Bogota, Colombia, late May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A demonstrator holds an image of the Brazilian flag covered in fake blood and the Portuguese phrase "Bolsonaro Genocide" during an anti-government protest by unions against President Jair Bolsonaro's policies to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in Brasilia, Brazil, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Father Felix Mendoza, a Venezuelan Catholic priest, prays over a woman who cries that she is in physical pain at a public hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, May 11, 2021, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Mireya Garcia is treated for diabetes and arthritis by Santeria healer Hermana Maria at the Hermano Guayanes Spiritual Center, in an area known as "The Alleyway of the Witches" in Caracas, Venezuela, May 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A person in a dinosaur costume votes on the second day of the Constitutional Convention election to select assembly members that will draft a new constitution in Santiago, Chile, May 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A woman carries a cross during a pilgrimage to pray that the Pacaya volcano decreases its activity in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Anti-government protesters clash with police, triggered by government proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages and pensions, in Madrid on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

People walk away after getting a shot of the Sinopharm vaccine for COVID-19 as residents over age 50 are vaccinated in La Paz, Bolivia, May 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Subway cars dangle from a collapsed elevated section of the metro, where at least 23 people were killed and dozens were injured in Mexico City, May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A presidential guard gets ready for the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Guillermo Lasso at the National Assembly in Quito, Ecuador, May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Carlos Noriega)

A couple embrace during ongoing anti-government protests triggered by government proposed tax increases on public services, fuel, wages and pensions in Bogota, Colombia, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A boy jumps into a flooded street during unusual rainfall along a tributary of the Solimoes River in Anama, Amazonas state, Brazil, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

A woman suspected of having COVID-19 is pushed into Llavallol Dr. Norberto Raúl Piacentini Hospital in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina, May 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Children hold training weapons, some real and some fake, during a display for the media designed to attract the federal government's attention to the dangers of organized crime that their town negotiates daily in Ayahualtempa, Guerrero state, Mexico, April 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Bride Rocio Silva, from Uruguay, gets help with her dress from her Cuban groom Mario Carrasco as they cross the street with family after a portrait session along the seawall shortly after getting married during the new coronavirus pandemic in Montevideo, Uruguay, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

People wait to be vaccinated with the locally made Abdala vaccine for COVID-19 at a doctors' office decorated with an image of Fidel Castro and a Cuban flag in the Alamar neighborhood of Havana, Cuba, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Luis Rocio sits on his bed inside a shared bedroom at the Nosotros Unidos Foundation, a home for the elderly where he has been living for over a year, just before the COVID-19 pandemic began in Caracas, Venezuela, May 14, 2021. Rocio, 70, said he works as a nighttime security guard in a residential area and earns the minimum wage of $3.35 dollars a month, and cannot afford to rent a room. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

A man is detained by the police, accused of theft by demonstrators, during a protest demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moise and against an upcoming constitutional referendum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Anti-government protesters stand next to the body of Fredy Bermudez, an official of the Attorney General's office who protesters killed in retaliation for fatally shooting two protesters at a roadblock set up by demonstrators in Cali, Colombia, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Andres Gonzalez)

Women take photos of a protest the day after a deadly police operation that killed at least 25 people in the Jacarezinho favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A heart shaped picture frame lays on a blood covered floor inside a home in the aftermath of a police raid targeting drug traffickers that killed at least 25 people in the Jacarezinho favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

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Edited by Dolores Ochoa , AP photojournalist based in Quito, Ecuador.

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